Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took fire after the FAA grounded flights nationwide for 90 minutes, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and others questioned his...
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“This incident also highlights why the public needs a competent, proven leader with substantive aviation experience leading the FAA,” Cruz said. Robert W. Mann Jr., an independent airline industry analyst, called it ironic that Buttigieg and the FAA came down so hard on Southwest Airlines for cancelling nearly 17,000 flights Christmas weekend, only to see the agency’s own shortcomings surface weeks later.
One key question will be why the NOTAM system — Notice to Air Missions — that failed on Wednesday has few built-in redundancies, Mann said, and Congress must also press to identify other vulnerable systems. “Everyone else pales in comparison to us in terms of our safety record, but we’re falling behind on innovation,” he said. “It’s clear from the cancellations today that we have some vulnerabilities that need to be addressed.”“He respects the secretary and the work that he has been doing,” she said. “You have seen the secretary on TV. ... They are doing everything that they can to make sure that the experience that Americans have is a good one” when they travel.
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