Air travel quandary: Gad Allon and Megan Ryerson on challenges and solutions

In a Penn Today piece, Penn IUR Faculty Fellow Megan S. Ryerson, Chair of City Planning at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, breaks down the structural challenges behind today’s aviation delays alongside Wharton’s Gad Allon, examining air traffic controller burnout and the shrinking pilot pipeline. Despite today’s frustrations, she reminds us why we keep flying

“Transportation links people to the activities they need and love… Aviation does this on a global scale. That’s why we keep coming back.”