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Article: U.S. to Shake Up Air Traffic Bureaucracy Series: AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL Series Number: 1/2
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- The Washington Post
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- May 2, 1994
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The Clinton administration has decided that the vast network of
computers and people who guide 19,000 scheduled airline flights a
day across the country is so bureaucratically encrusted that both
safety and efficiency will be threatened unless a new way is found
to run it.
An administration proposal to remove the air traffic service
from the Federal Aviation Administration and turn it over to a
government corporation, long sought by the airline industry, will be
officially announced this week, according to government sources.
Thousands of aircraft fly at hundreds of miles an hour through
crowded skies without bumping into each other in large measure
because of 38,000 air traffic ...