(courtesy of FL360aero)
After 40 years of service, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s chief air traffic control official will depart the agency as the administration under U.S. President Donald Trump prepares a major overhaul of the unit’s outdated technology.
Tim Arel, the chief operating officer of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization, has accepted a buyout offer extended to personnel at many agencies and plans to depart after a transition period of a few months, the agency said in a statement.
Tim Arel joined the FAA as an air traffic controller in 1989 and had planned to retire by the end of the year, as per FAA.
Worth noting here is, the FAA recently replaced the entire air traffic control management team at Reagan National Airport (DCA) following a physical altercation inside the control tower and a fatal crash in January.
