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Should the United States privatise Air Traffic Control?

President Donald Trump supports moves to separate management of air traffic from the industry regulator FAA, possibly putting it under the control of a private company.

Airlines which pay for air traffic control hope a new system will cut flight times, but aviation experts are divided on the new plan and many claim it will fail.

Michael J Boyd, the President of Boyd Aviation, in Evergreen Colorado, tells the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Russell Padmore the air traffic control system is outdated, but politicians do not understand how the business works and do not know how to fix it.

(Picture: Aircraft at LAX Airport Los Angeles. Getty Images.)

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