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U.S. looks to Canadian model as it debates air-traffic-control privatization

As the clock ticks down towards a March 31 deadline for Congress to authorize new funding for the FAA, several key players have been visiting Ottawa to learn about Canada's air navigation service, said Sid Koslow, chief technology officer at Nav Canada.

A major debate is underway about how to fix the United States’ bureaucratic air traffic control network, and stakeholders are looking north to Canada’s privatized system for a model of the way it should be done.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has struggled for a long time to secure enough funding to update its aging infrastructure, while Ottawa-based Nav Canada has quietly turned itself into a world leader in technology, exporting its know-how around the world.

And as the clock ticks down towards a March 31 deadline for Congress to authorize new funding for that FAA, several key players have been visiting Ottawa to learn about Canada’s air navigation service, said Sid Koslow, chief technology officer at Nav Canada.

Koslow said he recently hosted Bill Shuster, the Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the House Transportation Committee, as well as senior executives from United Continental Holdings Inc. and American Airlines Group Inc.

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