'The alarm bells are going off': Air travel hits new lows
A few weeks before his second term began, President Donald Trump promised a “golden age of travel.”
More than a year later, however, it is far from that.
This week’s deadly crash in New York and the eye-popping lines at airport security checkpoints are the latest in a series of failures plaguing aviation. Other woes include worries of near collisions and equipment failures that have exposed a buckling system — one that has been under strain for years.
Even investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board en route to LaGuardia Airport to investigate the crash there were not immune to the chaos: One specialist was stuck in an hourslong Transportation Security Administration line in Houston, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said this week.
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