Former FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said the effort to spin off U.S. air traffic control (ATC) from the FAA failed because it became too focused on the structure of a proposed new entity instead of detailing solutions for making air traffic management more efficient in the U.S. Huerta spoke at Aviation Week Network’s MRO Americas conference in Orlando on April 10. While in office, from which he retired in January, he never took a position on U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster’s (R-Pa.) ...
