should be a statement from the c.o.o. of american airlines, he wrote that in a memo to his employees. but one airline analyst tells fox the ability of 5g to interfere with the altimiter, is like the cell phone to interfere with the communications on the plane. it s not entirely clear but can spend a lot of money and disrupt a lot of travel trying to get to the bottom of it. john: the airlines are sparing no efforts in sounding the alarm. see where it goes from here. we ll be talking with kathleen banks, sandra, in the next hour, former airline pilot instructor as well as a commercial pilot. she has some thoughts about all of this. but again, they have known it s been coming for a long time. amazing they have to delay the rollout. emirates president saying the 5g fiasco, he s blaming pete buttigieg for doing nothing to
shape it ll take or what day it ll happen but more really good achievements are coming this year. let me ask you one other thing top of mind. that is the 5g fiasco going on. verizon and at&t which does own cnn s parent company have announced a delay in launching 5g service near some airports. you got 5g in a lot of other countries so we re lagging on it anyway. airlines have warned of dire consequences. as you know the faa has been sounding an alarm on the problem with this band width and where it is on the spectrum vis-a-vis radar since at least 2015. they were saying, watch, watch, watch. okay. that was obama. then comes in trump. federal government goes ahead anyway. they wanted the money and sold the spectrum for $81 billion to at&t. and the other telecom companies. isn t this a failure of the u.s. government? why did they sell something that they weren t going to then allow to be utilized safely? i do think once we have a