President Trump told airline executives that the air traffic control system is “totally out of whack” and described the nation’s airports as “obsolete.”
Trump met with the executives at the White House, where one CEO criticized the air traffic control system and said it needed modernizing.
Trump responded: “I hear we’re spending billions and billions of dollars, it’s a system that’s totally out of whack.”
The president also criticized American airports, calling their equipment “bad.”
“Our airports used to be the best, now they’re at the bottom of the rung. … We spent six trillion dollars in the Middle East, we have nothing,” he told the execs. “And we have an obsolete plane system, we have obsolete airports.”
“We’re going to change all of that, folks. You’re going to be so happy with Trump. I think you already are.”
Trump also pledged to lower “the overall tax burden of American businesses big league,” as well as roll “back burdensome regulations,” in a brief press availability at the top of his meeting.
He said the plan would be rolled out “over the next two or three weeks” and that it would be “phenomenal in terms of tax.”
Trump met with United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz, Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary C. Kelly and others.
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