Key Highlights
- air traffic control towers are unlikely to ever reach full staffing levels if the agency continues operating as it does now, acknowledging persistent shortages during a House aviation subcommittee hearing.
- "The honest answer, sir, is, if we continue with business as usual, never," Bryan Bedford said when Rep.
- Hank Johnson Jr., D-Ga., asked when air traffic control towers would be fully staffed."We'll never catch up.
- The system is designed to be chronically understaffed," the FAA chief added.
- AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS MISS FULL PAYCHECK BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN, DUFFY SAYS FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford listens during a hearing of the Aviation Subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Dec.
