Richard Quest: ‘The Level of Incompetence’ Behind FAA Upgrades Led to a Nationwide Ground Stop Unlike Anything We’ve Seen Before

RUSH EXCERPT:

QUEST: “Because of the size and scale and extent and the depth of the reason that miles was just talking about the level of incompetence, first of all, at its most at its most simple, the level of incompetence to actually do this upgrade in such a cack handed fashion that it led to this. But what it has exposed is the need for more expenditure. And if there was one bit of honesty from both secretaries, particularly secretary duffy, is the admission begrudgingly, this could happen again. And he‘s right. It could happen in a different way. Another bit of this old crappy infrastructure could fall apart and cause a major outage. And what he did not answer was why a Republican Congress. Let‘s face it, they‘ve had the White House and the both houses for the last two years did not deal with this. They got 12 billion, which is the down payment. But miles and I and anybody else who covers aviation have known it‘s going to take tens of billions to put this right.”