President Donald Trump plans to modernize U.S. air traffic control systems, while transferring operations from a federal oversight body to a self-financing nonprofit organization.
The White House also said that liberalising the air traffic control system would allow the country to move forward with technologies such as uncrewed aircraft.
President Trump said his plan to reform the country's air traffic control system will save money, but a study released a year ago predicts a 20 to 29 percent increase in operational costs over the next decade if the system is privatized.
Larsen noted that flights at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are running more efficiently because of NextGen, and said billions of dollars' worth of benefits to the airline industry could be at risk.
Trump envisions modernized operations to replace the current operation that he said is "stuck, painfully, in the past".
"The antiquated system we rely on today is inefficient and causes thousands of avoidable flight delays", Shannon Gilson, a spokeswoman for American, said in a statement to the news agency.
Ticket prices essentially would be equalized at first, but they might decrease over time, he said.
"Honestly, they didn't know what the hell they were doing", Trump said, according to NPR. "A total waste of money", he added. Joining him in the East Room were airline industry executives, union members and a pair of former transportation secretaries: Elizabeth Dole and Mary Peters.
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The group Flyers' Rights calls it the "creation of an airline-controlled corporate monopoly".
The proposal also faces obstacles in Congress, where Democrats and some Republicans oppose it.
Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is a proponent of what he calls separating the regulator from the service provider. That effort picked up steam past year when the union that represents air traffic controllers agreed to support a proposal by House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster, R-Pa., to spin off air traffic operations into a private, nonprofit corporation. The FAA would still have some oversight capacity, but a board made up mostly of representatives of the major airlines would govern this corporation.
This will remove "30,000 FAA employees from the federal payroll".
"This reform will bring our aviation system into the 21st century".
Katko, R-Camillus, said he has been studying the issue for the past two years, and saw the difference privatization can make when he was part of a congressional delegation trip to Canada. The opponents say the current system works well, and they fear the transition would be a setback to the introduction of new technology.
In addition to fears that the system would drive up the cost of air travel, Democrats argue that the change is both unnecessary and the advanced technologies may be too much for carriers to handle, especially in light of computer glitches experienced by major US airlines.
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