Yeah, I think a lot of people feel less safe in the air is right now in the air right now. What happened? How do we fix it? Here's what I can tell you. For about three decades, the number of air traffic controllers in this country went down. We worked hard to make it go back up. And I was the first secretary in decades to hand my successor an air traffic control workforce that was growing instead of shrinking. (10:16–10:22)
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