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“It needs to have stable, predictable funding so we can continue to modernize the system and give the American people the best, safest system in the world,” said Paul Rinaldi, A4A senior vice president of operations and safety.

This would support the administration’s air traffic control hiring surge and “salary increases,” according to the document, as well as the agency’s “ongoing updates to its outdated telecommunications systems.”

“We have very obsolete equipment for air traffic controllers. The towers have horrible equipment,” Trump said during a 30 April meeting with cabinet members. “We want to put a brand new air traffic control system in.”

In a 29 April letter, the Modern Skies Coalition, a group of dozens of aviation organizations, says it “strongly endorses the Air Traffic Control modernisation proposal from the House Committee … We urge the House to pass these provisions and will continue our engagement with the Senate as they look to work on this effort