Trump Says Air Traffic Control System Out of Whack After Incident With His Plane

The United States spends billions of dollars on an air traffic control system that still does not function properly, President Donald Trump said in a meeting with airline industry CEOs at the White House on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The statement comes after reports of a private aircraft flying closer than permitted to Trump's plane over Florida. On Friday, the US president flew from Washington to Palm Beach International Airport to visit his Mar-a-Lago estate for the weekend.

"I hear we're spending billions and billions of dollars, it's a system that's totally out of whack," Trump stated when Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly told him a top priority for helping airlines would be the modernization of the country’s air traffic control system.

Kelly noted that despite all the money spent on the air traffic control system in the past, there have not been significant improvements.