Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has the confidence of President Biden after a technical outage with the Federal Aviation Administration caused mass cancellations and delays.
Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed Wednesday after an antiquated government system broke down. suffered a nationwide technical outage causing mass cancellations and delays early Wednesday. press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre later in the day.
"They are doing everything that they can to make sure that the experience that Americans have is a good one," she said. "That’s why they’ve held the airlines accountable." "We understand what Americans have been going through these past couple of months," Jean-Pierre added. "That's why the secretary has been very clear on making sure that they are held accountable. [Buttigieg] has put processes in place to make sure that that occurs.
"I just spoke to Buttigieg. They don’t know what the cause is. But I was on the phone with him about 10 minutes," Biden said. "I told him to report directly to me when they find out. Air traffic can still land safely, just not take off right now. We don’t know what the cause of it is."Buttigieg tweeted a response to the day’s chaos from earlier, saying he had "directed an after-action process to determine root causes and recommend next steps.
The NOTAM system broke down late Tuesday and was not fixed until midmorning Wednesday, leading to more than 1,200 flight cancellations and more than 8,500 delays by early afternoon on the East Coast, according to flight-tracking website FlightAware.
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