The House has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would give the Federal Aviation Administration more money to hire air traffic controllers.
– The Federal Aviation Administration would get more money to hire air traffic controllers and the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots would be raised under a bill approved Thursday by the House.air travel, which has been plagued by delays and cancellations during its busiest times, and would reauthorize FAA programs for the next five years. It passed on a mostly bipartisan vote of 351-69.
that is already causing a loss of service to smaller communities. But opponents including pilot unions said the change would undermine safety. Opponents said the airport is already too congested and that adding more flights would lead to more delays. United Airlines, with a major operation at farther-out Dulles Airport, lobbied against the increase in flights at National.
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