them to get rid of backup. backup backup backup pilots. i mean, if something redundancy exactly something like this were to happen, and i was in the air, i would just don t tell me. let me leave my headphones in. please don t let me is there a pilot on board or anyone? i m not religious, but i m praying, you know? no, i want multiple backup pilots. please do not save me any money or, more likely the airline any money by getting rid of the safety measures like an extra pilot, you know? oh, it s not just that we re covering these things more often. things are happening more often. and today, transportation secretary pete buddha judge talked about that, so it s not just that we re aware of it. he said that, for instance, there are there have been more near misses this year. let me play him for a second. we think that the uptick is partly related to the exceptionally fast surge in demand and the swift return to the skies faster than even the most optimistic scenarios that
we heard a couple of years ago. we need to make sure sure, of course, that as that system comes back to that high level of demand, there is no negative safety impact to that. he says. basically the near collisions are occurring at double the rate of last year, and we also have the shortage of pilots that the guidelines are still recovering from post pandemic when you know they retired. some people like some people off to save costs, so they re still scrambling to recruit more people so that there are enough so it s kind of not surprising that all of these, these incidents are stacking up on each other. the transportation system so we like, you know, i, um the near misses. we should not view as near misses, they are flashing red lights, telling us that the system is under stress, whether it s because of pilots or too many flights in the air or is even the transportation secretary has said. going back through your protocols. there s lots of these problems. do not fly a lot for two years,
for these more than 150 million americans, particularly young americans who actively use the platform, brianna yeah. use it and use it for hours a day, alex . thank you for that. we appreciate it tune in to cnn. primetime tonight when abby phillip takes a look at tiktok future she s going to host is time up for tiktok tonight at nine. eastern, the faa is laying out some new steps to help prevent close calls between airplanes. this is coming after an alarming number of these near collisions that we ve been seeing this year at airports all around the country. we have cnn aviation correspondent pete montini joining us live. tell us what we learned about these new guidelines. pete transportation secretary pete buddha judge brianna just spoke about this on capitol hill. and he says that category a and category b runway incursions with their officially called the most severe type of these on or near runway collisions were happening at a rate of about one every month. now, he says, the rate h
southwest is not going to only have to make them financially whole but find a way to really rebuild trust and confidence. again they pledged to me they re going to do that pretty want to see exactly what that means. click southwest airlines received $7 billion from taxpayers during covid and the need to be an accounting of it. i want to hear people to judge that he is going to audit that $7 billion. twenty-seven transportation secretary pete buddha just till pressure southwest airlines to make amends with tens of thousands of customers who are left stranded over christmas. publican nancy met mesa said the secretary is going to need to do a hot hole up more than that to keep airlines accountable. we are back in with panel. catherine, buttigieg insists the airlines make amends here. they both pointed out this week he tried to pressure the airlines already earlier this year end some pretty important issues and walked away
southwest is not going to only have to make them financially whole but find a way to really rebuild trust and confidence. again they pledged to me they re going to do that pretty want to see exactly what that means. click southwest airlines received $7 billion from taxpayers during covid and the need to be an accounting of it. i want to hear people to judge that he is going to audit that $7 billion. twenty-seven transportation secretary pete buddha just till pressure southwest airlines to make amends with tens of thousands of customers who are left stranded over christmas. publican nancy met mesa said the secretary is going to need to do a hot hole up more than that to keep airlines accountable. we are back in with panel. catherine, buttigieg insists the airlines make amends here. they both pointed out this week he tried to pressure the airlines already earlier this year end some pretty important issues and walked away