A4A CEO: Still “work to be done” to safely deploy 5G around airports

Airlines for America President and CEO Nicholas Calio acknowledged the Biden administration’s actions to avoid “catastrophic disruption to the traveling and shipping public, the global supply chain and the US economy,” which would have occurred as a result of the planned launch of new 5G service around airports. Calio discussed the agreements the White House reached on Tuesday with AT&T and Verizon in an interview with CNN International saying, “we’re in a good place right now,” but noted “we’ve got a lot of work to do, and everyone has to keep doing this work with a sense of urgency to get it done so planes can keep flying and we can deploy 5G at the same time. This isn’t something that’s going to go away overnight, and it’s going to take a lot of cooperation from all the different parties to get this done.”