Several Countries Have Privatized Air Traffic Control. Should the U.S.?

Several countries have privatized air traffic control. Should the U.S.?

In 2017, during his first term in office, President Trump announced his intention to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system, calling it “stuck, painfully, in the past.” The proposal never took off.The current Trump administration is again focused on reforming air traffic control, following a recent spate of technical outages and staffing shortages as well as the January midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and U.S. A…

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An effort to privatize U.S. air traffic control in 2017 never took off. Now the aviation industry is uniting behind the Trump administration’s plan to overhaul the system. (Image credit: Russell Lewis)

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