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Conservatives rally behind independent air traffic control plan | TheHill
@Smott999
Privatization is different than deregulation. I think you may be mixing up the two.
Right now the FAA has a conflict of interest. They run the ATC system and also regulate it. It's like one hand policing the other hand.
Here in Canada we privatized our ATC almost 20 years ago. And ATCs in Australia, Germany, New Zealand, and Switzerland are also private / non-government. (Plus the UK NATS is partially private if I'm not mistaken).
Privatizing the US ATC would be quite a complex process, undoubtedly. But it may be the right thing to do in the long run.
By the way, privatization was seriously proposed back in 1994, by Bill Clinton.