Delta CEO blames FAA outage on insufficient funding
Brady Knox
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Delta Air Lines’s chief executive officer blamed the recent Federal Aviation Administration outage on a lack of funding.
The Wednesday outage grounded 10,000 flights momentarily and brought renewed criticism against the FAA. The organization blamed personnel incompetence in the aftermath.
In an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Ed Bastian passed blame away from the FAA, saying that the fault lay with Washington.
FAA BLAMES PERSONNEL INCOMPETENCE FOR SYSTEM OUTAGE THAT STOPPED FLIGHTS
“It was a difficult day on Wednesday for our customers as well as our own employees. And candidly, it’s unacceptable,” he said. “I don’t recall us ever shutting down the national air space due to a similar type of technology outage for several hours.”
However, he claimed that the incident “is not the FAA’s fault.”
“I lay this on the fact that we are not giving them the resources, the funding, the staffing, the tools, the technology they need,” he said. “Hopefully, this will be the call to our political leaders in Washington that we need to do better.”
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The debacle caused Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairwoman Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to call for a congressional investigation into the outage.