Chris Sununu

Well, there's not a crisis right now per se.

I think there's a lack of controllers and we're trying to get more people in the system, make sure that the training is there, the expertise is there, and that process speeds up.

There's a lot of delays in it that just aren't really necessary.

So I think what the FAA administrator, Brian Bedford, Sean Duffy, they get it.

And they are kind of breaking down a lot of the bureaucracy and those barriers to encourage more people to come in

to make sure they get certified faster, get them in the towers, and keep the whole system more resilient.

And at the same time, you have this thing called air traffic control modernization.

We're getting away from, I mean, literally floppy disks and paper strips and this old school coding that is really from the early 90s.

The government just hasn't done their part up until now of kind of updating that system.

Well, this past year they did.

This administration did a great job.

Senator Cruz did a great job putting money down, not just to...

you know, let's give us some credit for putting some money somewhere, but saying we need results.

We need a whole modernized system that makes everything more efficient, faster, a better experience for the customer, better experience for the airlines, and really bringing this national airspace, which is unlike any other in the world, you know, really to that preeminent gold standard that we know it can be.

It's just starting, really.

So the dollars were appropriated a few months ago.

They have what they call an integrator, kind of a lead engineering group that will drive a lot of these processes.

But to the FAA's credit, I mean, look, one thing you got to say about this administration, they are moving.

They do not slow down for bureaucracy.

They don't wait for anyone.