{"id":793,"date":"2011-07-05T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/officials-weighing-costs-of-us-flight-control-system-overhaul\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T07:34:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T11:34:03","slug":"officials-weighing-costs-of-us-flight-control-system-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/officials-weighing-costs-of-us-flight-control-system-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials Weighing Costs of US Flight Control System Overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government and airline officials are weighing the costs of overhauling the United States\u2019 flight control system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A proposed plan would replace 50-year-old radar technology with a state-of-the-art GPS tracking system that would allow planes to fly closer together and increase the frequency of take-offs and landings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new system could potentially save airlines millions in fuel costs and significantly decrease pollution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, the monumental costs of implementing such a system (especially in a battered economy) could prevent it from getting off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officials estimate that the government and airline industry would need to invest between $29 billion and $42 billion for equipment, software, and training by the year 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20110705\/NEWS07\/107050337\/GPS-system-aims-make-flying-easier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Detroit Free Press<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government and airline officials are weighing the costs of overhauling the United States\u2019 flight control system. &nbsp; A proposed plan would replace 50-year-old radar technology with a state-of-the-art GPS tracking system that would allow planes to fly closer together and increase the frequency of take-offs and landings. &nbsp; The new system could potentially save airlines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897727,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/98897727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}