The crippling air traffic control outages that Newark Liberty International Airport has been struggling with, on top of the fatal Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport midair collision in February, have put a harsh spotlight on the need to modernize the U.S. air traffic control system.
“The system we have here is not worth saving,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in early May as he announced a proposed overhaul of the entire system.
And while Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world’s busiest airport, has not caught headlines recently for any of its own air traffic control issues, it’s incredibly vulnerable to them, Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, said in an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution…