Under Free Flight, airplanes with FMS will allegedly fly Direct from origin to destination instead of being restricted to airways. So, instead of being on one of [10] airways in a sector, each will be on its own route. Without a complex computer program that sees ALL these routes and predicts ALL potential conflicts, the controller load would actually be higher. Then, if there is a computer outage, there will be even MORE potential for conflict than there is today, where we can at least revert to standard position reporting...
Throw in a bit of bad weather
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