Last year, flights over the UK ground to a halt after the air traffic system collapsed as a result of a software bug. A number of systems, in Europe at very least, have been accused of being decrepit and "not fit for purpose." It's not the only air-traffic control system that's old and outdated. One of the system's key maintenance workers is set to retire next year, said Fiacre. The bigger problem may not be the old software, but exactly who will keep the system ticking until the software is finally deprecated. According to an article in Le Canard Enchaîné, the French transport minister promised that the airport's equipment "will be upgraded by 2017." Fiacre disagrees, saying it could take two to four years after that "at the earliest."
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