Still Equal Four Add 600 flights a day to an already congested air traffic control system and delays ensue. Schedule 57 flight operations in a 10-minute span, when only 35 aircraft may takeoff and land under ideal conditions. The result, delays. Neither the Federal Aviation Administration nor air traffic controllers, not Congress, not airports. The airlines do.
Aviation safety is inherently governmental.
Finally, the FAA and employees such as controllers are on a solid modernization path. New equipment is transitioning into the system, and the 21 st century will be replete with advanced technology. To understand our challenge, visualize changing a tire on a car traveling 70 miles an hour. With the threat of a passenger bill of rights before Congress, airlines point fingers at FAA s traffic management. Yet, airline schedules, volume and weather cause the vast majority of all delays.