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...“It’s the continual battle to try and ‘fix’ the systems for a type of transit and location that prospered under a different [EU single market] border system,” they added....
...Britain’s aviation regulator will launch an independent review into the failure of the air traffic control system over the August bank holiday that grounded hundreds of aircraft and left thousands of passengers...
...UK air traffic services provider Nats has appointed Warren East as non-executive chair, replacing Paul Golby who held the role through a difficult decade that included a failure of Nats’ systems last August...
...A review into the failure of the UK air traffic control system over last year’s August bank holiday has criticised “a significant lack of pre-planning” for major disruption....
...Most notably, the UK’s air traffic control system failed over the August bank holiday weekend last summer, affecting more than 700,000 passengers during one of the busiest travel periods of the year....
...Engineers working from home worsened the sweeping disruption that caused the UK’s air traffic control system to fail over the August bank holiday weekend, according to a review commissioned by the aviation...
...Yet a near-miss at Bordeaux-Mérignac airport, outlined in a report by France’s aviation accidents bureau last month, highlights the urgent need for modernisation of air traffic control systems....
...The UK’s air traffic controller has been given approval to significantly raise its charges, just weeks after a systems failure left thousands of passengers stranded and triggered a row with airlines....
...Dubai officials are concerned about the growing frequency of large-scale storms in the city, where drainage systems are overcome during periods of heavy rainfall....
...This would have led to less investment, fewer air traffic controllers and a less resilient system with more delays for passengers,” he said....
...Above everything, airlines and airports need stability in the system and to know if anything is likely to disrupt that.”...
...driver misuse” of its system, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found....
...More recent traffic figures show that passenger numbers returned to 82 per cent by the end of last year....
...Eurocontrol, the organisation that oversees air traffic management for Europe, warned that the UK had been hit by a “flight data processing system failure”, which meant that UK flights were being “regulated...
...A system-wide failure of the UK’s air traffic system on Monday that left thousands of passengers stranded is “going to take some days” to resolve, the UK’s transport secretary said on Tuesday....
...“It’s not like on the roads with traffic lights....
...An FAA-commissioned report into air traffic safety, published in November, found there had been an increase in the most serious type of runway incidents, and air traffic control systems suffered from “inadequate...
...“In every air traffic control system in the world all decisions are made by a human,” said Cannon....
...As it is, AVs are like commercial airline traffic but with no two-way communications with air traffic control systems, trying to find their way only with their own radar and other environmental sensors....
...Without it, you cannot train an artificial intelligence system.”...
...Many Parisians are planning to flee, darkly predicting that the capital will become an uninhabitable, crowded mess; the transport system will collapse under the influx of 16mn expected visitors; or a terror...
...The whole dismal system sends a weak signal for an already uncertain future....
...sufficiently accountable to the public This lack of accountability has led to poor oversight that has left households grappling with high energy bills, passengers stranded at airports last summer because of air traffic...
...The system’s monitoring and warning alerts “may not be sufficient to prevent driver misuse”, said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) which ordered a recall....
...The minister also called on the Ukrainian authorities to help control cross-border traffic and ensure that “Poland is a window to the world for Ukraine”....
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