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Travelers enactment up for flights astatine O'Hare International Airport successful Chicago, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

WASHINGTON – U.S. airlines are asking the Federal Communications Commission to hold adjacent week’s scheduled rollout of caller 5G wireless work adjacent dozens of large airports, saying it could interfere with electronics that pilots trust on.

Airlines for America, a commercialized radical for ample U.S. rider and cargo carriers, said successful an exigency filing that the FCC has failed to adequately see the harm that 5G work could bash to the industry.

The radical wants much clip for the FCC and the Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates airlines, to resoluteness issues astir aviation information related to a benignant of 5G work called C-Band.

“Aircraft volition not beryllium capable to trust connected vigor altimeters for galore formation procedures and frankincense volition not beryllium capable to onshore astatine definite airports,” the radical said successful a filing Thursday. Radio altimeters measurement the tallness of planes supra the ground.

A4A, arsenic the radical is called, said its 11 subordinate airlines look the request to reroute oregon cancel “thousands” of flights, resulting successful losses topping $1 billion.

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The radical said the caller work volition impact each 3 large airports successful the New York City country — LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark, New Jersey — arsenic good arsenic O'Hare successful Chicago, Logan successful Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles International and San Francisco.

The commercialized group’s wide counsel threatened to spell to tribunal adjacent week if the FAA does not respond to the group’s petition for a delay.

The FAA said successful aboriginal December that it volition restrict pilots from utilizing automated landing systems astatine definite airports aft the rollout of 5G oregon fifth-generation wireless work due to the fact that it could interfere with vigor altimeters. The FAA declined to remark connected the hose group's filing.

CTIA, a commercialized radical representing the wireless-communications industry, did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., president of the House Transportation Committee, sided with the airlines, saying Friday that the aviation and telecom industries should enactment unneurotic “to find a harmless mode to deploy 5G technologies. ... We can’t spend to experimentation with aviation safety.”

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AT&T and Verizon Communications antecedently agreed to a one-month hold successful 5G, which provides faster speeds erstwhile mobile devices link to their networks and allows users to link galore devices to the net without slowing it down.

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