Former United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz discussed a government report over cancelations and said the issues were due to an 'obsolete' air traffic control system.
Munoz addressed the GAO's report on Thursday's "Varney & Co.," and discussed what he saw the as the "biggest issue" in the air travel industry.
"I think if you think about the broader context of this, you as the flying public, what you see is you see us, and you see the delays, and you don't understand them." Air traffic controllers Derek Weaver and Tim Teceno, left, work in the radar approach room at Portland International Jetport on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. "If you dig beneath the surface a little bit more, probably from my opinion, the biggest issue that we have in America is broader infrastructure, but specifically in"We have the most outdated and I would say obsolete system in almost the entire world," he added.
Munoz discussed the precautions airlines take for safety and the role played by traffic control systems. "In essence, what it does, we're always safe regardless, but in order to stay even safer, we just don't let planes up in the air. So if there's any kind of
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