The Dallas Morning News, via Halfnut
But with funding constraints at the Federal Aviation Administration, the program may not expand fast enough to prevent another serious accident.
The technical translation of that is:
Not enough people have died yet. Unfortunately, nothing else will change the situation. The 'capping' of traffic is certainly not going to happen.
Turning to the origins of this situation ... (bearing in mind that I am simply a UK based Pax) when did training start to slip? Is this linked to the 1981 strike and the reaction of the US govt/FAA to PATCO? My reason for raising this is that, the decline of a skilled trade does not happen over night and the fault line will run long and deep. If we do not understand where the 'earthquake' started, then we cannot hope to plot the way it will develop and thus, how we can minimise damage. Politicians (which includes the FAA as it is a govt agency) will want to say, "We have moved on" and all that other stuff but, I suspect, that we have not.