The United States is a big place, and we have one of the most complex aviation systems you’ll find anywhere in the world. Our airports see more than 2 million passengers every day. Here in New Hampshire, we host a very important piece of the infrastructure that enables safe air travel: the FAA air traffic control facility in Nashua.
I’m very concerned that Congress is looking at potentially privatizing air traffic control, a move that would not only impact local workers at our FAA facility, but could slow down planned improvements to the FAA and even drive up consumer costs, not to mention turning over a critical public service to a for-profit company.
We shouldn’t be privatizing public safety. The FAA and its workers should remain public employees because each and every one of us depends on them every time we fly. Congress should kill H.R. 4441, the bill to privatize the FAA.
Sen. Jeff Woodburn
Dalton