06/24/2026
Airlines are adept at designing and optimizing flight schedules to maximize expected revenue, earnings, and returns on capital within a variety of business constraints.
Airline-optimized schedules are published, chosen by, and sold to the public up to a year in advance of departure.
FAA now states it will demand airlines change schedules ‘days, weeks, or months’ prior to departure, ignoring airlines’ design optimization, ignoring airlines’ overall and real-time, day-of-flight business objectives and constraints, as well as ignoring customer choices.
Despite FAA demanding $31 billion to fund it, that risky new system still fails to recognize or mitigate the root cause, day-of-flight random point overloads, that drive airspace congestion, ATC workload, flight delays.
That is today’s problem, the same as the last several decades' problem, which a cumulative over $100 billion in investments has failed to address or remedy. And that will be the 'brand new ATC system' problem as well.
What airline, what Congress, and what customers should put up with that waste?
Especially when 1000x less expensive -- millions, not billions -- independently proven, commercialized, on-the-shelf options exist.
Why tolerate expensive, risky, 'NeverGen' solutions when proven, more efficient, NowGen solutions exist?
