Why Air Travel is Such a Mess (with United CEO Scott Kirby)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
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The Air Traffic Control System Cannot Support the Number of Flights
Yithin is one of the most effective and highest paidup government programes you could imagine. Had we not had those programmes, airlines were going to close, shut down. We can't fly our full schedules because the air traffic control system cannot support the number of flights that existed before. It's getting reported in the process, pilot shortages. I talk tof the ceo of jet blu, and they have 24 % more pilots than they had before. This is not about airline moneys. We need the air traffic Control system to support it. The payback has been great.
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