airlines 777 jet crossed a runway as a smaller cargo plane was landing. and then days before that, an american airlines flight at jfk crossed in front of a delta plane trying to take off. and then there is the near miss in austin, where a fedex plane almost landed on top of a southwest flight. i want to bring in our aviation expert david soucie, who has tried to make me feel better about these things. but david, i m starting to think these are not all anomalies. it s going to feel like there s one of these a week that we report on. it seems like they are a lot more often. and that s only because they are more often right now. if you look at the traffic that s going on in boston right now, boston is at 12,000 flights in january 2021. and now it s come up to 29,000 into january 2023. so, it s nearly three times as much traffic. and they re spacing the airplanes a lot closer together to try to get them out faster. this particular one, alisyn, to make you feel more comfortable
I don t know why i m supposed to feel better about that. but don t private planes have to follow the same rules, or i guess not? i mean, i would guess so, right. i think the big thing here is as flyers, as consumers, you and i just don t know what s going on. all we see is a story like this every week. and we re seeing more and more them might as people try to break back and travel after covid. i did not even know there s more flights now than there was before covid. all i know is the faa is definitely, you know, understaffed, underfunded, as been reported. the budget in 2022 was 18.5 billion dollars for the faa, which is actually less than it was in 2004 adjusted for inflation. so, we have more flights. you know, we probably need better technology. we re in the 20 twenties. but why is the budget less than it wasn t 2024? john, there was a big infrastructure bill that passed. is that supposed to be helping with some of the stuff? 25 billion dollars worth of health on the way, all
This particular one, alisyn, to make you feel more comfortable this one, because this was a mistake that was made by the pilot. and it was caught by air traffic control, which is their job. so, they were able to catch it. okay, i guess that makes me feel better. the mistake by the pilot doesn t make me feel that great. but why is there so much more traffic? are they having three times as many planes as they used to? well, it s just the demand. there s more demand. there s more flight. more people traveling. i think it s after covid, post covid everyone is back in the idea that they can just go fly now. so, every flight i ve been on has been completely packed in just last few months for sure. and they re just getting more and more packed. so, the only way the airspace system can handle more flights, full flights, is by getting them off the runway faster. so, they just keep getting them off the runway faster. so, they need to slow these things down and get back to what is a sensible
What happened? it s a stunning rebuke to her leadership. she seems to have come in third in this sort of nonpartisan open primary they have. but look, i think crime has not gotten better on her watch. that was a big part of her selling point. she was coming in as a prosecutor. there is covid, obviously. there s a lot of controversies, inevitably, for big city mayors. but also, a persistent perception of weakness that alienated a lot of key constituencies, from progressives was endorsed by the police union, the other interest by the teachers union, which is particularly powerful in chicago. so, this is being set up as a pretty massive test between the strength of two unions in a city that is still not really gotten its mojo back where it needs to be. let s start with crime. i think we have the 2022 year and report. and murder i don t know if we have it. but violent crime we ll, murder and shootings, actually, believe it or not, ended down.
For mayor but none won more than 50% of the vote, so ballast and johnson will now face off. lightfoot found herself with few hours allies in her bid for a second term. the police and teachers union backed other candidates. mayor lightfoot conceding tonight as we all know, in life, in the end, you don t always win every battle. but you never regret taking on the powerful and bringing in the light. [applause] to my friends across the country, and my fellow mayors, never fear being brave and bolt. okay. so, how did the issues of crime, education and covid play out in this election? let s talk about it and bring back the panel. john, i was just reading that laurie lightfoot is the first incumbent mayor in chicago to lose after one term in 40 years. so, why?