Richard Quest on Political Divisions: ‘Both Sides Loathe Each Other and Are Determined To Beat the Bejeebers Out of Each Other’

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QUEST: “Yeah. But first of all, when they want to do it, they can. And never mind ballrooms, just look at what they did at newark. Newark had some serious comms problems with air traffic control. But they put in they went in there. They spent the billions, they put the fibers, and they sell as much as they could. They sorted it out. But here‘s the really difficult bit. How do you get both sides to agree to do this when neither wants to give the other a political advantage? And there‘s an election in two years time and both sides loathe each other and are determined to to to beat the bejeebers out of each other. That‘s look, I yesterday I was with I‘m not going to mention which airport, but I was with the CEO of a major gulf airport and we were just comparing about the expenditure levels here in terms of infrastructure, the recognition of the importance of aviation to the economy, and the precedence that it gets.”