US: Coalition opposing US ATC privatisation makes case

Two Democratic members of the US Congress and several public advocacy groups came together to express their strong opposition to privatising US ATC, though it is unclear whether the coalition—particularly the two Congressional Democrats—would oppose every potential plan to separate ATC from FAA. Rep Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) and Del Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-Washington DC), who are both on the US House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, joined with a coalition calling itself Americans Against Air Traffic Privatisation to oppose what they said is a plan by T&I Committee chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pennsylvania) to privatise ATC. Shuster has yet to put forward an FAA reauthorisation legislative proposal that is expected to include a plan to structurally reform US ATC. <br/>