Trump Announces Plan To Privatize Air Traffic Control

[LAHockey]

Thoughts: This is going to change travel in the United States. What are your thoughts on this plan to privatize ATC.
First sentences: President Trump announced Monday a plan to privatize the nation’s air traffic control system — a move that would remove the job of tracking and guiding airplanes from the purview of the Federal Aviation Administration.

“Today we’re proposing to take American air travel into the future, finally,” Trump said.

Trump Announces Plan To Privatize Air Traffic Control

Approved by Carson

[Sam_S]

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Privatizing ATC

This article talks about the possibility of privatizing ATC. I’m not for more government controls, but also not sure that ATC rules, regs, and controls should be outsourced to the lowest-bidder. This would also pose a huge threat to GA. There would be the potential for larger ‘voiced’ groups like major commercial carriers to influence routes and priorities. Not exactly sure what I think about this yet. Anyone have any persuasive thoughts in one direction or another?

[LAHockey]

This was approved by @Carson.