An American Airlines plane and Frontier Airlines plane clipped wings at Logan International Airport in Boston on Monday. (Credit: WBZ)

With President-elect Donald Trump in the captain’s seat, the Federal Aviation Administration will move at warp-speed to regain the flying public’s trust and make American skies great again. He will name a new administrator who has a sense of urgency; enough management acumen to unshackle worldclass aviation experts from DEI distractions; and enough political savvy to secure a badly needed multibillion-dollar budget for immediate modernization needs.

There’s not a minute to spare.

As an airline transport pilot with more than 8,000 hours at the controls, as well as my time as Trump’s ambassador to the European Union — where I was responsible for FAA’s European headquarters — I am uniquely suited to understand what’s going on.

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And what’s going on is stagnation when we need to be sprinting.

The FAA is in serious need of modernization, which would prevent major problems at airports. FILE: A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-7H4 is pictured approaching San Diego International Airport for a landing on June 28, 2024, in San Diego, California (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

The first time I took my mother flying, we were rolling down the runway, and she put her hands on the dashboard, leaned back and exclaimed, "Gordy, not so fast!" But to keep her safe, I couldn’t slow down. The same goes for the next administration’s FAA.

The congestion agitating the record number of fliers this Thanksgiving is the least of our problems if the FAA doesn’t quickly modernize its technologies and procedures. Near misses, runway incursions and exploding airplane windows are real and keep on........

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