00:00Good afternoon. I'm here with the administrator of the FAA, Brian Bedford. I appreciate
00:14there'll be frustration. We are working with the airlines. They're going to work with passengers,
00:20but in the end, our sole role is to make sure that we keep this airspace as safe as possible.
00:26The administrator is going to talk about all of the tools we're going to deploy. One of them,
00:33though, is going to be that there is going to be a 10 percent reduction in capacity at 40 of our
00:39locations. The administrator is going to tell you that this is data-based. This is not based on what
00:46airline travels, has more flights out of what location. This is about where is the pressure
00:52and how do we alleviate the pressure? But we do recognize that the controllers have been working
00:58fastidiously for the last five weeks with this huge burden over their head of lack of compensation,
01:05and we are starting to see some evidence that that fatigue is building in the system in ways that we
01:11feel we need to work towards relieving some of that pressure. So again, as the secretary said,
01:18we've identified 40 high-traffic environment markets. We'll be happy to share that later.
01:24We have decided that a 10 percent reduction in scheduled capacity would be appropriate to,
01:29again, continue to take the pressure off of our controllers. And as we continue to see staffing
01:36triggers, there will be additional measures that will be taken in those specific markets.
01:40We, I'm concerned about disrupting people's travel. We're coming into a weekend. Uh, that doesn't,
01:46listen, I, I, I travel, I travel a lot. We are concerned about that, but we had to have a gut
01:53check of what is our job? Is it to make sure there's, you know, minimal delays or minimal cancellations,
01:59or is our job to make sure we make the hard decisions to continue to keep the airspace safe?
02:10We have to do this or do that or try to change some stuff because you're so worried that it won't
02:36do that scenario. That is going to be a lie.
02:39We have to do that.
03:09Thank you so much for joining us.
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