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Trump Announces Plans to Privatize Air Traffic Control

HeadlineJun 06, 2017

President Trump announced Monday plans to privatize air traffic control. A Congressional Budget Office analysis says privatizing air traffic control would increase the cost of air travel. The consumer advocate group Flyers Rights says the proposal amounts to “handing the airlines (for free) control over a core public asset, and providing them nearly unbridled power to extract new fees and increased taxes from passengers.”

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