Restrictions deter airport privatization

Published December 26, 2014 8:30pm ET



A 1996 law Congress approved to encourage conversion of the nation’s 3,300 publicly held airports to private ownership has succeeded in converting only one, according to a government watchdog.

The Airport Privatization Pilot Program lifted some restrictions that challenged private operation for qualifying airports in order to incentivize conversion, the Government Accountability Office said.

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