(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. air-traffic control system would be spun off to a nonprofit corporation and airline passengers wouldn’t be allowed to talk on mobile phones under sweeping legislation unveiled Wednesday to set aviation policy for the next six years.
The job of guiding planes would be taken away from the Federal Aviation Administration and put under the auspices of a new nonprofit funded by fees on commercial flights that would replace most current airline taxes, said Representative Bill Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
"I believe that what we are doing is taking this organization out of a bureaucracy that doesn’t manage the costs well," said Shuster, a Pennsylvania Republican, in an interview. "Taking it out, I think, you can have a much more efficient corporation."
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