Tech lag costs airlines billions in fuel

Here we go again. Sturgell need to go find a real job somewhere. Under the current FAA "leadership" we have already spent billions going nowhere in attempts to upgrade our primitive ATC system. Don't expect throwing more good money after bad to do anything to improve the situation. The BBC recently explained why the ATC upgade in Southern England took an extra five years: "The plan was for Nats to use a package that was being developed as part of a huge upgrade of the US air traffic control network. But this ran into problems - and the American project eventually collapsed. Richard Wright says this meant the software developers and Nats were left to continue alone. Their role in picking up the pieces and bringing the software up to scratch "took much longer than planned," Mr Wright says.“"

That is just an excuse on the part of the companies in question on this subject. The fact is that it should have taken, at most, 20 billion dollars to do something like this, with most of the cost being taken up by the satellites and the actual equipment for the airplanes.