Following an FAA outage 11JAN that resulted in over 10,000 delayed or cancelled flights, including many into or out of Canada, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the federal government would find the cause and “own it.”
“We’re going to find it, and we’re going to fix it,” Buttigieg said, according to Airline Weekly. Buttigieg was vocal in demanding Southwest Airlines take responsibility for its failures that led to a massive operational meltdown over the holidays.
The report adds that “the FAA’s air traffic control technology is known to be outdated,” despite FAA urgently requesting funding for upgrades. The FAA’s next 5-year budget is up for approval this year but the process is “notoriously fraught and subject to the political whims of Congress.”
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