Milan, 15 Nov. (LaPresse) – US Secretary of Transport Sean Duffy has refused to apologise for Friday’s nationwide flight ground-stop, which left hundreds of thousands of travellers stranded across the country following a router fault that brought air traffic control communications to a standstill. Duffy made the statement to CNBC. Instead, the Secretary placed the blame on his predecessors and previous presidential administrations, arguing that they had not done enough to modernise the nation’s air traffic control system. “It happened under my watch, but let’s be clear: I am moving at an incredible pace, faster than anyone at the FAA has in recent decades, and I am proud of the work we are doing and the attention we are devoting to this issue!” Duffy told NBC News’s ‘Meet the Press’ programme. “However, I cannot apologise for a situation that was left to us as a legacy, nor can I blame the Republicans or the Democrats, because the responsibility lies with all of them,” he says.
US, Duffy: ‘I won’t apologise for the flight cancellations – 30 years of underinvestment’
Milan, 15 Nov. (LaPresse) – US Secretary of Transport Sean Duffy has refused to apologise for Friday’s nationwide flight ground-stop, which left hundreds of thousands of travellers stranded across the country following a router fault that brought air traffic control communications to a standstill. Duffy made the statement to CNBC. Instead, the Secretary placed the blame on his predecessors and previous presidential administrations, arguing that they had not done enough to modernise the nation’s air traffic control system. “It happened under my watch, but let’s be clear: I am moving at an incredible pace, faster than anyone at the FAA has in recent decades, and I am proud of the work we are doing and the attention we are devoting to this issue!” Duffy told NBC News’s ‘Meet the Press’ programme. “However, I cannot apologise for a situation that was left to us as a legacy, nor can I blame the Republicans or the Democrats, because the responsibility lies with all of them,” he says.