To combat the traffic, the FAA also recently announced 169 new flight paths to help improve “flexibility” in the corridor, US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said this month

Air traffic out of control: Staffing shortage could ruin Memorial Day travel

By News on the Net -- New York Post——Bio and Archives--May 25, 2023

Traveling this long weekend? Get ready to hurry up and wait.

AAA expects Memorial Day weekend will be the third busiest for travel overall since the agency started tracking that metric in 2000 — with the company’s senior vice-president of travel predicting this summer will be “one for the record books, especially at airports.”

But a major staffing shortage of air traffic controllers could fuel another summer of airport headaches. ---More...

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