# Flights grounded again: what should change?

Hundreds of US flights were disrupted this week by an air traffic control failure on an ageing system.

Poll by GloboPoll

## Results

- Public money to replace the ageing system — 0 (0.0 %)
- Make the airlines pay for the upgrade — 1 (100.0 %)
- Hire and pay more controllers — 0 (0.0 %)
- Cap flights at the busiest airports — 0 (0.0 %)
- Nothing — failures like this are rare and unavoidable — 0 (0.0 %)
- Not sure — 0 (0.0 %)

1 votes

## Poll facts

- Status: open, accepting votes
- Type: single choice
- Published on: 2026-09-24
- Data updated on: 2026-09-24

## How votes are counted

One vote per person (per account, or per IP address and browser for anonymous votes). Anyone can take part: this is an open online poll, not a representative statistical sample. Results update live while the poll is open.

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