WASHINGTON—The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Thursday it wants to adopt a new comprehensive system to overhaul how air traffic controllers receive flight data and move aircraft between facilities.
Congress in July approved a $12.5 billion plan to overhaul the nation’s aging air traffic control system, and boost controller hiring following decades of complaints over airport congestion and flight delays. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has said he wants an additional $19 billion from Congress for air traffic control reform.
Duffy has said the FAA has been forced at times to go to eBay to get spare parts and tech woes repeatedly snarled traffic this summer….