Exclusive: Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen tells LesterHoltNBC that officials will assess whether changes need to be made to how American flights are regulated, after a series of high-profile near-collision incidents at U.S. airports.
at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas narrowly avoided hitting a Southwest Airlines flight preparing to take off.there have been fewer overall near-miss incidents over the past six months than in the same periods prior.
"We’re coming out of the backside of this pandemic," he said."And ... truly we’re seeing pent up demand for flying. Flying has come back with a vengeance, so to speak." Amid record profitability for airlines, Nolen called on carriers to continue to create schedules that"match their capability and demands of the market."
But he acknowledged that the FAA must ameliorate a system where there can be"a single point of failure." He praised Congress for recently pledging to provide funding so that the FAA can continue to upgrade its systems.
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