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Article: North Las Vegas, Nev., Airport May Privatize Air Traffic Controllers.
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- August 23, 2003
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By Tony Batt, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 23--WASHINGTON--The North Las Vegas Airport is one of 69 airports across the country that could hire contract employees of private companies to be air traffic controllers, according to legislation Congress will consider this fall.
The controversial privatization provision was slipped into a Federal Aviation Administration bill reportedly at the Bush administration's insistence. Democrats are trying to strip the privatization provision, which is opposed by all but one member of the Nevada congressional delegation.
Although the North Las Vegas Airport is not ...