FAA Should Shut Most Air-Traffic Control Rooms, Study Says
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration could save $1.7 billion up front and about $1 billion more annually by closing 187 air-traffic radar rooms and building consolidated centers to control flights over large regions, a study found.
Most of the U.S. centers and regional approach control facilities “can and should be shut down,” wrote the report authors, who included Robert Poole, transportation director for the Reason Foundation, and Michael Harrison, the FAA’s former director of architectural and systems engineering.