Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the celebrated US Airways pilot famous for making an emergency landing in New York’s Hudson River in 2009, said he is opposed to legislation that would spin off the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control system into a private nonprofit agency. He argued that the legislation would give too much power to the larger airlines.
“There are other, better ways to solve this political budget problem — by giving the FAA, in running the air traffic control system and making capital improvements to the air traffic control system, more predictable multi-year funding — without giving away the keys to the kingdom to the largest airlines to control access and fees and pricing too,” Sullenberger said Thursday.
