Air travelers expect air traffic control to work, and that it be out of sight and mind. Unfortunately, ongoing government failure to modernize the Federal Aviation Administration’s ancient air traffic control system is becoming just all too visible for the traveling public. It has taken the form of increased flight delays and cancellations.

Numerous government audits suggest efforts by Congress and the FAA to bring 1960s-era ground-based radar air traffic control system into the satellite age may be doomed to failure.

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