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Trump Announces Plan To Privatize Air Traffic Control

It's an idea long supported by most of the commercial airlines and the union who say the system is inefficient under the Federal Aviation Administration.

President Trump announced Monday a plan to privatize the nation's air traffic control system — a move that would remove the job of tracking and guiding airplanes from the purview of the Federal Aviation Administration.

"Today we're proposing to take American air travel into the future, finally," Trump said.

The nation's

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