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Kris Van Cleave

Kris Van Cleave

Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms.

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May 29, 2026 / 7:01 AM EDT / CBS News

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As the summer travel season starts to take off, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration tells CBS News he has confidence in the system, despite hundreds of FAA facilities being run on decades-old technology.

"Go back to last summer. We saw, you know, we saw equipment failures in Washington, Newark, Philadelphia, places where the system was just breaking. Most of that has been corrected, not all of it," FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said in an exclusive interview with CBS News this week. "We still have, I think, some real reliability risk in the system because we're running off of 1970s and '80s computing power, compact disks.…