Why general aviation isn’t cheering Trump’s air traffic control plan

President Trump at the White House Monday. (Image from Whitehouse.gov video)President Trump announced this week he wants to privatize the FAA’s air traffic control operations, in part to speed up modernization.
“After billions and billions of tax dollars spent and the many years of delays,” he said, “we are still stuck with an ancient, broken, antiquated, horrible system that doesn’t work.”
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