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9月15日（路透社）—— 一名飞行员工会和一名航空顾问表示，受空中交通管制员短缺影响的航空公司应采取更多措施，防止延误升级为大范围中断。与此同时，美国议员将于周二就美国航空业改革展开讨论。
美国联邦航空局局长布莱恩·贝德福德即将在美国国会众议院拨款小组委员会作证，介绍一项计划中的125亿美元空中交通管制改革方案。此前一天，一家政府监督机构就支出短缺问题发出警告。
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空中交通管制相关中断已在美国、澳大利亚和英国造成航班延误和取消，原因是人员短缺和技术问题，给全球航空公司带来挑战。
总部位于纽约的捷蓝航空（JBLU.O，打开新标签页）上周表示，今年夏季美国东北部遭遇风暴和管制员短缺后，该公司该地区因空中交通问题取消的航班数量较此前三年平均水平翻了近一番。
根据咨询公司Cirium的数据，捷蓝航空7月份的表现落后于美国其他主要航空公司，取消率达到8.3%，而边疆航空、达美航空（DAL.N，打开新标签页）和联合航空（UAL.O，打开新标签页）等竞争对手的取消率均不到3%。
在路透社查看的信函中，目前正与捷蓝航空进行合同谈判的捷蓝飞行员工会敦促该航空公司采取额外措施，防止航班延误和取消情况恶化。
“今年夏季给我们带来了沉重打击，长时间工作、反复出现的中断，以及太多本可避免的混乱，”美国航空飞行员协会捷蓝分会主席韦恩·斯凯尔斯在9月7日的一则消息中写道。
斯凯尔斯写道，飞行员们敦促捷蓝航空制定一项计划，以应对7月份出现的运营难题，当时机组人员需要等待重新分配任务和酒店住宿安排。
“风暴和空中交通管制限制在所难免，没有哪家航空公司能够完全消除运营中断，”他说。“但管理层可以控制的是捷蓝航空的应对准备程度——以及恢复运营的效率。”
空中交通管制限制
捷蓝航空在一份声明中表示，该公司根据往年的天气和空中交通管制表现，对夏季运营进行了充分准备，但风暴和管制员缺位可能打乱最周密的计划。
“天气和空中交通管制限制的不可预测性使得提前规划变得异常困难，可能导致中断迅速升级，”该航空公司表示。“考虑到我们在东北地区的业务规模远超同行，这一问题对捷蓝航空来说更为严重。”
美国航空业顾问鲍勃·曼恩表示，在美国最繁忙的东北空域运营的航空公司面临延误风险。他说，目前已有可减少延误和取消航班连锁反应的软件，但航空公司并未广泛使用。
贝德福德于上周四与美国主要航空公司的首席执行官会面，讨论联邦航空局利用先进软件改革航班调度、提升航班管理效率的计划。
这套名为SMART的系统采用预测分析技术，能够更有效地重新安排因恶劣天气取消的航班。
捷蓝航空表示，对该系统感到鼓舞，“它有可能为联邦航空局和航空公司提供更好的信息和工具，以便更早预判限制条件，做出更明智的运营决策，并在中断发生后更高效地恢复运营。”
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FAA boss set to discuss air traffic reform as airlines urged to better handle delays
2026-09-15T10:03:15.574Z / Reuters
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Sept 15 (Reuters) – Airlines affected by air traffic control staff shortages should do more to prevent delays from snowballing into broader disruptions, a pilots’ union and an aviation consultant said, as lawmakers prepared to discuss U.S. sector reforms on Tuesday.
Federal Aviation Administration boss Bryan Bedford is set to testify before a U.S. House appropriations subcommittee about a planned $12.5 billion air traffic control overhaul, a day after a government watchdog warned about spending shortfalls.
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Air traffic control-related disruptions have caused flight delays and cancellations in the U.S., Australia and Britain due to staffing shortages and technology issues, posing challenges for airlines around the world.
New York-based airline JetBlue Airways
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said last week its air traffic-related flight cancellations nearly doubled in the Northeastern U.S. this summer compared to the average of the prior three summers after the region was hit by storms and controller shortages.
According to data from consultancy Cirium, JetBlue’s July performance lagged other major U.S. airlines, with an 8.3% cancellation rate compared with less than 3% at rivals including Frontier, Delta Air Lines
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In correspondence reviewed by Reuters, JetBlue’s pilots’ union, which is currently in contract negotiations with the airline, urged the carrier to take additional steps to prevent flight delays and cancellations from spiraling.
“This summer took a toll with long days, repeated disruptions, and too much seemingly preventable chaos,” said a September 7 message from Wayne Scales, president of the JetBlue arm of the Air Line Pilots Association.
Pilots have urged JetBlue to design a plan to prevent operational challenges that left crew waiting for reassignments and hotel accommodations in July, Scales wrote.
“Storms and air traffic constraints will happen; no airline can fully eliminate operational disruptions,” he said. “What management can control is how prepared JetBlue is to respond — and how effectively it recovers.”
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JetBlue said in a statement it put extensive preparation into its summer operation based on prior years’ weather and air traffic control performance, but storms and missing controllers could upset even the best planning.
“The unpredictability of weather and air traffic control constraints makes it significantly harder to plan ahead and can cause disruptions to compound quickly,” the carrier said. “This is exacerbated for JetBlue given our outsized footprint in the Northeast.”
U.S. airline industry consultant Bob Mann said airlines operating in Northeast airspace — the most congested in the nation — risked delays. He said software was available that could reduce the domino effect of delayed and canceled flights, but it was not widely used by airlines.
Bedford met last Thursday with the CEOs of major U.S. airlines to discuss the FAA’s plans to use advanced software to overhaul flight scheduling and improve flight management.
The SMART system, which uses predictive analytics, could more effectively reschedule flights that were canceled due to bad weather.
JetBlue said it was encouraged by the system, “which has the potential to give both the FAA and airlines better information and tools to anticipate constraints earlier, make better operational decisions and recover more effectively when disruptions occur.”
Reporting by Allison Lampert in Montreal and Doyinsola Oladipo in New York; Editing by Jamie Freed
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