You would not expect your commercial flight today to take more time than it would have done decades ago, but the CEO of Delta said that it was recently for at least a major flight route.
A Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta, where the carrier has its headquarters at Laguardia airport in New York, takes more time today than when the airline began to offer the route in the 1950s, said Eday Show on Thursday.
Delta generally offers at least a dozen flights per day which come from Hartsfield-Jackson of Atlanta and arrive in Laguardia. The shortest of them usually lasts about 2 hours and 13 minutes.
“What’s going on is to keep things safe, everything is slowed down by the sign of any type of risk,” he said.
When asked why the flight takes more time today, Bastian replied: “It is the air traffic control system. It is very slow, it is congestioned but it is not congestioned; there is a lot of space if you modernize the sky and you can bring greater efficiency.”
The key to modernizing the sky would be to use satellite technologies and GPS, he said, in addition to updating radar and radio systems from the 1960s that air controllers still use.
Delta did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Duffy said in the interview on Sunday that he was “concerned about the entire airspace” in the United States because the equipment used by most airports is now exceeded.
The American transport secretary, Sean Duffy, recently talked about the question of “Meet The Press”, saying that he was “concerned about the entire airspace” in the country due to archaic equipment.
“The equipment we use, in large part, we cannot buy new parts,” said Duffy. “We have to go on ebay and buy parts if a game breaks down. You are dealing with really old equipment. We are dealing with copper wires, not fibers, not at high speed fibers, and therefore that is worrying.”
Bastian called on additional congress investments to finance modernization.
Another major airport in the New York metropolitan region, Newark Liberty International Airport in neighboring New Jersey has recently experienced mass delays and cancellations affecting thousands of travelers.
“It slows down everything, leaving the stress of the system,” said Bastian about Newark. “Now it’s not good in the long term, it’s not good for consumers, it’s not good for the airport itself, but it’s the only thing we have in the meantime.”
The airport has experienced massive disruptions since the end of April, caused by a shortage of air traffic control personnelSome equipment failures, the main track closed for construction and rainy weather.
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