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World Service,3 mins

Should the United States privatise Air Traffic Control?

World Business Report

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of Boyd Aviation, in Evergreen Colorado, tells the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Russell Padmore the air traffic control system is outdated, but politicians do not understand how the business works and do not know how to fix it.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