Politics should not stand in the way of FAA reform and advancing the pace of Next Generation air traffic control, the head of American Airlines said Tuesday. American Airlines chairman and CE Doug Parker gave a strong defence for creating a separate, not-for-profit organisation to run the US air traffic control system. Earlier in March, a bipartisan FAA reauthorisation bill was proposed by a US Senate committee that shunned any proposal to remove ATC from FAA. Parker said it felt like “the poisonous atmosphere of national politics is being duplicated unnecessarily and destructively in the current legislative debate on aviation issues.” He said there should be no dispute about the long-term objectives to advance from an ATC system that continues to use World War II processes and technology. <br/>