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FAA Forecast Sees Continued, Steady Growth in Air Travel
The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) annual forecast released today shows the nation’s aviation system will continue to grow over the next two decades with a greater number of people expected to fly more miles each year. The total number of people flying on U.S. airlines will increase by 0.8 percent from 2013 levels to 745.5 million in 2014 and grow to 1.15 billion in 2034. (www.faa.gov) Mais...
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I urge you to look into the FAA's most recent hiring bid for Air Traffic Controllers. It certainly won't reassure you of the FAA's commitment to safety.
U.S. commercial airline safety has continued to steadily improve annually (zero U.S. airline passenger fatalities in the last ~5 years, i think?). Non-U.S. airlines still have some improvement, however. Even general aviation in the U.S. has been seeing year-over-year reductions in accidents and is the safest it has ever been.
By comparison, check out the statistics of the trucking industry (1 out of 55,000) with commercial air carriers (1 out of 2,067,000)... http://tinyurl.com/mjyjb4g
By comparison, check out the statistics of the trucking industry (1 out of 55,000) with commercial air carriers (1 out of 2,067,000)... http://tinyurl.com/mjyjb4g
Well in today's world, airline crashes and loss of life is unacceptable.
The FAA and the companies need to be held accountable for the accidents they cause indirectly or directly by their careless attitude.
The Airline industry is starting to resemble the Trucking industry in more ways than one.