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Industry to Senate: shorten NextGen timetable
Congress seems to be getting fed up with the slow pace of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) rollout.

Congress seems to be getting fed up with the slow pace of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) rollout. When NextGen was publicly announced in 2004 by then-Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, 2025 was often mentioned as the target date by which all of the expected benefits would become available to users.

But at a Senate aviation subcommittee hearing on NextGen in late March, Sen. John Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) lamented the lack of
progress on NextGen. “I’m just losing patience,” he fumed.

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