An ATC outage at Newark airport has drawn more attention to an outdated system. Plans for a new air traffic control system were announced Thursday by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy amid a ...
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 ...
Air traffic control is back in the news. On Apr. 28 and again on May 9, communication system breakdowns affecting Newark Liberty International Airport limited the ability of air traffic controllers to ...
The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we could adopt its privatized air traffic control system. Last month, to rally support for a massive ...