this safety summit last week, and after that, it s really laid out this two pronged plan not only for pilots, reminding them to be extra vigilant about the procedures that take place on an airport to try and avoid these runway close calls, but also two air traffic controllers. this five point plan that the faa says will include stepping up oversight by supervisors and air traffic control towers. also trying to get more air traffic controllers through the training pipeline. that s a huge issue because traffic controllers are top union says staffing is a really big problem. the just released these numbers, saying staffing his own. at 54% at one of the main air traffic control facilities in new york that governs the three major airports there. only at 90% nationwide, so we re going into the faa reauthorization period, where the faa tries to get money from congress that will be a top priority for them. the faa even warning that delays and cancelations could go up this summer and really piq
doubled, which is really caused the faa to try and act here. they ve really laid out two different prongs of this issuing a bulletin two pilots underscoring to them that they should be extra vigilant as they fly, but also this five point plan to air traffic controllers laying out steps that will be taken in air traffic control towers and facilities across the country. more supervisors more training for unusual circumstances, which also is really interesting here is that the faa wants to improve training and reduce the training backlog because the staffing shortage of air traffic controllers is something that keeps coming up again and again . in fact, the faa just owned up to it a bit. saying that there is a shortage at the new york tracon terminal radar approach control facility. that s a key facility in new york controls the airspace around the three busy airports in the metro area . the shortage there really severe, only 54% staffing there right now 90% staffing nationwide, so the fa
pilots essentially reminding them to be more vigilant and step up their safety protocols. after these runway incursions. we ve seen six of them investigated by the ntsb so far this year, but they ve also laid out this five point plan for air traffic controllers to get more help it all centers on more supervisor oversight and air traffic control towers. also moving along the training backlog that was caused by the pandemic. the top union of air traffic controllers says that is so key here because aircraft control facilities are especially short staff. they say they break this down like this, and the faa is actually admitted to this, even causing some flight delays and cancelations this staffing right now at a key facility in new york and oversees the airspace of all three major metro airports. 54% is the staffing level there right now. it s 90% nationwide, so still a long way to go and the faa as it goes through its reauthorization period in congress. they ll, of course be asking for mo
displayed. it has you confirm that you read t it says, yeah, i read this, i know that. so it s shifted the responsibility now over to the pilots and the dispatchers. so we re going to continue to see delays because they re going to now have to check every airport, every route 25 miles both left and right on that route to see if there s anything that might affect that flight. so there s going to be continued delays. so, david, early on this morning as we were watching this, we saw that we ve heard from passengers in london sitting on the tarmac for three hours but we know of flights taking off from europe. my mom is in the air right now, she took off from new haven just before 7:00 this morning, no notice in the airport, in notice on the planes. so pilots can fly without this information. what does that mean, though, when they are in the air? who is communicating with them? is it just the air traffic control towers? yeah, your mom is safe, first of all, let s say that because when
caused it. both the president and his transportation secretary pete buttigieg say they don t know. i just spoke pete today. they don t know what the cause is. i was on the phone. we will find out. we will know what the cause of it is and within a couple of hours we will respond at that time. harris: secretary buttigieg tweeted earlier today that he has directed an after-action process to determine root causes and recommend next steps. why don t they talk like real people. they don t talk like real people because it s washington, d.c. they try to confuse things, over complicate things. this is around notam, notice to air missions. people think about it like the text messaging app between ground sensors, air traffic control towers and pilots in the air general or commercial