Trump meets airline CEOs and vows to fix ‘out-of-whack’ ATC system

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“You’re going to be so happy with Trump … I want to be able to do things for you,” America’s new commander-in-chief told US aviation executives, including Atlas Air’s Bill Flynn, at a more than hour-long White House meeting yesterday.

ATW reports that Mr Trump promised he would roll back industry regulations, ease carriers’ tax burden and upgrade an “obsolete” air traffic control (ATC) system.

“We’ve got an obsolete plane system,” said Mr Trump. “We have obsolete airports. We have obsolete trains. ...