US President Donald Trump plans to modernize his country's air traffic control system by transferring the management of a federal public agency to a self-funded organization because it "is stuck terribly in the past" and is an "old, Broken, outdated and horrible that does not work, "he said Monday in the White House.
To justify this assessment, the US mandatry has indicated that flight delays cost about $ 25 billion a year to the US economy and that the $ 7 billion spent by Barack Obama's government to upgrade the system did not bear fruit.
In addition to renewing the system with the "best equipment in the world," Trump's reform would mean transferring operations to a "self-funded, non-profit" corporation run by a board of directors of major airlines, Federal Aviation would remain in charge of air safety.
