Bill to privatise US air-traffic would ban in-flight calls
The US air-traffic control system would be spun off to a non-profit corporation and airline passengers wouldn’t be allowed to talk on mobile phones under sweeping legislation unveiled Wednesday to set aviation policy for the next 6 years. The job of guiding planes would be taken away from the FAA and put under the auspices of a new non-profit funded by fees on commercial flights that would replace most current airline taxes, said representative Bill Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. "I believe that what we are doing is taking this organisation out of a bureaucracy that doesn’t manage the costs well," said Shuster, a Pennsylvania Republican. "Taking it out, I think, you can have a much more efficient corporation." <br/>
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Bill to privatise US air-traffic would ban in-flight calls
The US air-traffic control system would be spun off to a non-profit corporation and airline passengers wouldn’t be allowed to talk on mobile phones under sweeping legislation unveiled Wednesday to set aviation policy for the next 6 years. The job of guiding planes would be taken away from the FAA and put under the auspices of a new non-profit funded by fees on commercial flights that would replace most current airline taxes, said representative Bill Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. "I believe that what we are doing is taking this organisation out of a bureaucracy that doesn’t manage the costs well," said Shuster, a Pennsylvania Republican. "Taking it out, I think, you can have a much more efficient corporation." <br/>
