Regulations and Government
In Wake of ATC Victory, Industry Leaders Stay Wary
Leaders agree that the ATC privatization issue will never fully disappear.

While business and general aviation celebrates the success in the long battle against efforts to create an independent user-funded air traffic control system, leaders remain wary that the issue will never fully disappear. Following this fall’s passage of the historic five-year FAA reauthorization bill without the controversial ATC provision, NBAA president Ed Bolen wrote members, saying, “The entire general aviation community should be extremely proud....Through tens of thousands of letters and phone calls to Congress, the voice of general aviation was heard loud and clear on Capitol Hill, leading to this victory.”


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