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5G technology: Some US airlines have suspended flights due to deployment issues

Lakshmi

Emirates, Air India, all Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines all announced service cuts Citing the issue.

Emirates has announced flights to nine US airports in Boston, Chicago, O’Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, George Bush Intercontinental in Houston, Miami, Newark, Orlando, San Francisco and Seattle. John F. of New York. It said it would continue to fly at Kennedy Airport, Los Angeles Airport and Washington Dallas.

“We are working closely with aircraft manufacturers and related authorities to alleviate operational concerns and hope to launch our US services soon,” Emirates said. Said In its statement.

Air India has announced that it will suspend services between Delhi Airport and San Francisco, Chicago and JFK. It will also stop the Newark flight from Mumbai.

Both ANA and Japan Airlines said they had canceled some flights to the United States that were scheduled to use Boeing 777s, but instead operated some flights using Boeing 787s.

And Tuesday evening, Delta Airlines (From) The possibility of a weather-related cancellation due to the new 5G service in the vicinity of dozens of U.S. airports has been planned since Wednesday.
“Telecommunications companies agreed on Tuesday to reduce the scope of the 5G deployment scheduled for Wednesday and delay operations around some U.S. airports. Although this is a positive development to prevent widespread disruption to air operations, some flight restrictions may continue,” Delta said. A statement, Must comply with FAA regulations already issued near vulnerable airports.

Traffic controllers were already concerned that the 5G version, scheduled for launch in January, could interfere with some aircraft equipment, and many aviation groups shared that fear – despite assurances from federal telecommunications regulators and wireless carriers.

In particular, the Federal Aviation Administration is concerned that 5G cellular antennas near certain airports – not mobile passengers’ mobile devices – may throw away the readings of some aircraft equipment designed to tell pilots how far they are from the ground. Those systems, called radar altimeters, are used throughout an aircraft, and are considered important equipment. (Radar altimeters differ from standard altimeters in that they rely on barometric measurements and do not use radio signals to measure altitude.)

AT&T, Verizon have delayed the release of 5G near some airports.
The FAA was Already released in December An emergency order prohibiting pilots from using vulnerable altimeters around airports that require low visibility conditions. That new rule may prevent flights from going to certain airports under certain circumstances because pilots cannot land using equipment alone.
AT&T and Verizon, both owned by CNN’s parent company, announced on Tuesday that they would delay the implementation of 5G in certain towers around certain airports. Wireless technology was introduced near large airports Scheduled for Wednesday.

“We are frustrated with the FAA’s inability to do what nearly 40 countries have done, that is, we use 5G technology safely without interrupting airlines, and we urge you to do it in a timely manner,” said AT&T spokeswoman Megan Getter. .

The Biden Administration Welcoming the delay, he said in a Report “This agreement will avoid catastrophic disruptions to passenger travel, cargo operations and our economic recovery, while allowing more than 90 percent of wireless tower deployment to proceed as planned.”

In a letter on Tuesday, CEOs of 10 airlines asked Biden’s management to postpone the already delayed release. Airlines estimate 1,000 disruptions per day due to potential interference with radar altimeters used by pilots to land in low visibility. The Department of Telecommunications did not comment on the letter, but said the fear was unfounded as there were no problems in other countries where 5G had already been used.