The United States hosts major international sporting events in the coming years: the Ryder Cup 2025, the FIFA World Cup 2026 and the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
However, the country is not ready for all plane trips that accompany these events, the US Travel Association said on Wednesday in a report.
“Without immediate action, our obsolete air travel system will have repercussions under pressure,” said the report.
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The La28 team poses with politicians and athletes from the American team while the Olympic flag arrived on August 12, 2024 in Los Angeles. (Emma McIntyre / Getty Images for La28)
The US Travel Association called for urgent modernization of air traffic control technology and solutions to the country traffic controller shortages.
“America is looking at a historic opportunity – the question is whether we will seize the moment or that we will fall in a crazy way,” said Geoff Freeman, president and chief executive officer of the US Travel Association.
“The next years will provide an unprecedented travel request that our systems are not prepared to manage. Washington has a small window to fix the main travel painting points and unlock an economic opportunity of $ 100 billion – but that will require a level of emergency that has failed in recent years. ”
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Mayor Karen Bass signaled to the Olympic flag at Los Angeles International Airport on August 12, 2024. (Etienne Laurent / AFP via Getty Images)
The US Travel Association called the Congress and President Donald Trump and his administration to take measures to improve trips by plane.
The organization said it wanted senior managers of the White House to present the country during world marquee events, that Trump draws his promise of accelerated visa for the 2026 World Cup and create more security screening processes advanced and solid airport borders.
Mayor Karen Bass accepts the Olympic flag of Thomas Bach, president of the Olympic International Committee, during the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, August 11, 2024. (Carl Reine / Getty Images)
“It’s time to deliver the world class travel system that Americans deserve – and the world is waiting for,” concluded Freeman.
