Delta Air Lines will restart its voluntary Aviation Safety Action Program as soon as March after going more than a year without it because of a dispute with its pilots union. Both the FAA and the NTSB lauded the return of the program, which is widely credited with reducing accidents in the airline industry, Bloomberg reported. The programs allow flight crews to submit reports for any safety lapses during flights, including things like runway incursions. The program is separate from an anonymous incident-reporting database maintained by NASA. Under the airlines’ ASAP programs, officials use the ASAP reports to modify procedures and shape training programs so that safety lapses don’t happen again. But pilot unions have said airlines were using the reports to punish some pilots who had written up safety lapses. Unable to reach agreements with their unions, several airlines dropped their ASAP programs: first Delta in December 2007, then American and Comair in October 2008 and US Airways in December 2008. American, Comair and US Airways have not yet restored their programs.