The outage caused departures nationwide to be halted one morning this month, disrupting travel and drawing attention to the Federal Aviation Administration’s outdated technology.
Category: Federal Aviation Administration
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House Passes Bill to Study FAA Alert System Whose Outage Grounded Flights
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Air Travel Debacles Put Pete Buttigieg in the Hot Seat
The New York Times – Travel:Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, is facing scrutiny after a meltdown by Southwest Airlines and a Federal Aviation Administration system outage wreaked havoc on flights.
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F.A.A. Says Outage Was Mistakenly Caused by Contractors
The New York Times – Travel:The workers “unintentionally deleted files” on the alert system for pilots, causing thousands of flights to be delayed on Jan. 11, just weeks after another nationwide air travel failure.
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Plane’s Takeoff Aborted as Another Crossed Its Path at Kennedy, F.A.A. Says
The New York Times – Travel:A Delta flight was taking off at Kennedy International Airport when an American Airlines plane crossed about 1,000 feet ahead of it, officials said.
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The Week in Business: More Air Travel Chaos
The New York Times – Business:Consumer prices continue to cool down. Goldman Sachs began one of its largest rounds of layoffs since the 2008 financial crisis. And Elon Musk is to go to trial over a 2018 tweet about Tesla.
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F.A.A. Outage Highlights Fragility of the Aviation System
The New York Times – Travel:The Federal Aviation Administration halted flights Wednesday morning after a system to alert pilots to safety issues went down, just two weeks after a major Southwest Airlines meltdown.
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Thousands of Airline Passengers Affected by FAA System Outage
The New York Times – Travel:For the second time in recent weeks, the U.S. airline industry faced major delays. This time, it wasn’t the airlines’ fault.
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What is NOTAM? Here’s Why the FAA Grounded Flights
The New York Times – Business:NOTAM alerts — short for Notice to Air Mission — are crucial to planning flights.
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Big Job Cuts are Coming to Goldman Sachs
The New York Times – Business:The firm’s chief executive, David Solomon, has given the task of determining which divisions will be affected to a chief lieutenant.
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Lufthansa Says Apple AirTags Are Once Again Allowed in Checked Bags
The New York Times – Travel:The airline reversed itself Wednesday, saying it had consulted with German aviation authorities, who agreed that Bluetooth trackers were safe for passengers to use.
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Lufthansa Says Passengers Can’t Use Apple AirTags to Track Checked Bags
The New York Times – Travel:It appears to be the sole airline saying that international standards don’t allow passengers to use the Bluetooth devices in the cargo hold. Apple said that regulators allow their use for all baggage.