Airlines say US must boost air traffic control staffing
U.S. airlines on Tuesday expressed growing frustration with Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control staffing (ATC) shortages, which have snarled flights and forced regulators to extend waivers on minimum flight requirements. "In the short to medium term we have to reduce flights in very impacted airports because the system can't cope with the number of flights today," JetBlue Airways CEO Robin Hayes told Reuters on the sidelines of an industry conference Tuesday. Airlines have faced flight woes after a record-setting U.s. summer travel season and voluntary cut flig...
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