Given the cost, complexity, and length of the project, GAO was asked to review FAA's NextGen implementation efforts. NextGen is intended to increase air transportation system capacity, enhance airspace safety, reduce delays, save fuel, and reduce adverse environmental effects from aviation. Planning for NextGen began in 2003 and in 2007 the effort was estimated to cost between $29 and $42 billion by 2025. Moreover, FAA has implemented most of GAO's related recommendations.įAA is leading the implementation of NextGen, which is designed to transition the nation's ground-based air traffic control system to one that uses satellite navigation, automated position reporting, and digital communications. While it is not possible to eliminate all uncertainties, FAA has adopted an enterprise risk management approach to help it identify and mitigate current and future risks that could affect NextGen implementation. FAA is taking actions to address challenges within its control by, for example, prioritizing NextGen improvements and segmenting them into smaller pieces that each require less funding.
While specific NextGen initiatives and programs have changed over time, FAA's 2016 cost estimates for implementing NextGen through 2030 for 1) FAA and 2) industry-$20.6 and $15.1 billion, respectively-are both within range of 2007 cost estimates.Įxpected Improvements under the Next Generation Air Transportation SystemįAA's challenges as it continues to implement NextGen include uncertainties regarding future funding whether aircraft owners equip their aircraft to use NextGen improvements potential air traffic control restructuring FAA's leadership stability and cybersecurity issues. By 2025, FAA plans to deploy improvements in all NextGen areas-communications, navigation, surveillance, automation, and weather. For example, FAA established groups of industry stakeholders and government officials, who worked together to develop implementation priorities. FAA has taken steps to address challenges such as limited stakeholder inclusion that affected early implementation of NextGen. NextGen has enhanced surface traffic operations at 39 of the 40 busiest airports in the United States by providing electronic communications to clear planes for departure, technology that can expedite clearances and reduce errors. Separately, Ms Kirwan said that while Dublin Airport operator DAA had “pulled up their socks” compared to last summer, the issues around parking that have emerged in recent weeks were avoidable.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is implementing the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) incrementally and has taken actions to address challenges to implementation. “You can’t click your fingers and do it overnight, but to see them just do anything, take any steps in that direction.” She said the European Commission will “struggle” to resolve the issues this summer. She said the airline is waiting to see if the French pension reforms, signed into law in April, will be accepted by unions. No further French ATC strikes are currently planned but Ms Kirwan said the threat of further action remains the “biggest risk to summer 2023 travel plans”. The airline also wants to enforce a 21-day notice period for such stoppages and binding arbitration for air traffic control disputes. Ryanair has long highlighted that Italian, Greek and Spanish minimum service rules protect overflights – flights passing through their airspace but not to or from one of their airports – when their air traffic controllers down tools, which is not the case in France. It’s more than we want to manage the impact of the strikes so they’re not affecting millions of people.” “It’s not that we’re trying to stop the strikes from happening.
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