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4. Private controllers have been a thing for awhile at smaller airports

Reply to UpInArms (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:07 PM

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It's part of the overall "privatization" BS that republicans like to promote as somehow being "better". But you see how they use it, "see, these are private contractors. Don't complain to us, complain to a nameless, faceless corporation."

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