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Feb 9, 2017 | 6:19 pm

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ATC privatization?

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"We want to get the government out of the role of managing the air traffic control system," Gary Kelly, Southwest Airlines Co's chief executive officer, told Trump during the picture-taking session.

After the meeting, Airports Council International-North America President and CEO Kevin Burke told reporters on a conference call that airport officials had urged Trump to lift the cap on airport passenger fees to address airport infrastructure needs.

Without discussing personality of the President and evil intention of airline executives, couple questions come into mind:

- Is privatization of ATC doable?
- How much average fees (i would assume departure tax) should increase to (this is important) entirely cover infrastructure modernization costs?
- How privatization of ATC would prevent repeating of 1981 incident?

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