We have installed 96 surface awareness systems like the one we are going to deploy today here at Newark we have deployed nine new radar systems, 363 analog. From analog to digital. 19 towers have been converted to electronic flight strip. We've also hired 2,000 new air traffic controllers. Now once they get out of the academy, it does take them time to train up and in the facilities. But this is the fastest that we have hired air traffic controllers in the history of the faa. (02:45–02:50)
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