coming tsunami of airline pilots. there s already a shortage of traffic controllers. new york that has been operating at about half its projected staffing level. how messy will summer travel be as a result of all of this? we re acting to make sure that airlines are accountable for serving passengers well. we ve seen so far improvement this year compared to last year. certain will i not resting easy as we look at the numbers week by week and day by day. on the air traffic control side, we are doing a ton of hiring right now to make sure we get more qualified air traffic controllers as the demand increases and some controllers retire. this is also one reason i m very concerned about some of the extreme proposals we see coming from members of the house gop. when they talk about cutting nondiscretionary spending. one of the things they re talking about cutting is our
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