UNITED STATES — The recent government shutdown brought flight reductions and several panicked passengers.

While air travel is getting back on track, some aviation experts are offering a solution that could prevent those scenes from happening again.

"Today, about 95 countries get their air traffic service from an air traffic control utility that is funded by user fees," Robert Poole, Director of Public Policy with the Reason Foundation, said. "It is not a part of a government budget."

Poole also has decades of aviation experience and has watched the idea of privatizing United States aviation fail. Now, he thinks the idea could be revived again.

"It's really a disaster to have the air traffic system be a part of the government budget as long as Congress has the ability to do what they di

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