Posted on 06/03/2017 10:10:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The downside to privatization would be a natural push for fewer controllers and busier frequencies. Makes a mess and isn't safe.
Because there is a place for non profit motive control in matters of nationwide communication and travel/safety.
Profit not the issue. Safety, uniformity and efficiency is the issue best served up and protected by force of law Forest.
Conservative mind should know better than to focus on just the free market. Please study up.
That’s why we have contracts that are designed to drive the contractors instead of letting them drive us.
Perhaps you haven’t read how the ranks of controllers have been filled with unqualified “diversity” employees?
Contracts have to be enforced by cumbersome civil suits. There is, in True Conservatism à small place for government control enforced by legal fines or sanctions set by law.
Very much disagree with privatizing ATC. bad idea. That creates another monopoly opportunity.
In total agreement with you. Can’t be ALL Huber conservative and certainly not liberal. Gotta use some common sense.
Some people think you can only be an idiot if you disagree with them.
Im waiting for someone to explain how Canada maintains such a high ATC standard and would handle our traffic load and who pays for ATC in Canada.
I remember those old days. I think you’re looking at the past through rose colors glasses.
Tautology of sorts. It’s already a monopoly.
I’ve yet to see a cogent argument for it remaining in the public sector, and what good the centralization imparts to it.
Furthermore, YOU should do some reading. The airlines were deregulated by an act of Congress signed by Jimmy Carter in 1978, the the breakup of the Bell system, while finalized in 1982, began with an antitrust lawsuit filed in 1974.
Have you ever been to a government office? It’s full of people who probably couldn’t get a job in the private sector.
Add the TSA to that list.
Reagan broke up airlines unions and fed regs also.
Why not privatize the air traffic control? Canada has done it and they are certainly more “socialist” than the U.S.
Privatizing it will get the Congressional politics and federal budget out of it. The governance structure of it can give voting voice to all the various stakeholders, large and small, and include a bit of U.S. federal representation on its board, even leaving an FAA that approves regulations but no longer operates the air traffic control system.
Its funding would come primarily from already collected federal fees in the aviation field, and fees the privatized system would charge stakeholders based on their load-demand on the air traffic control network. With the stakeholders having a voice in the governance of the privatized system (voice votes on its board of directors) they would participate in the network design & requirements of its operations, the plans for changes to that system and the fees they’d each pay. The politicians would be out of it.
Which airline unions. United? TWA?
Do not remember for sure. Or are you trolling me?
The subject of the conversation should be on the advisability of privatizing essential services like the air traffic controllers.
It was the traffic controllers union, PATCO. Not any airline union. I’m not trolling but rather showing how you don’t know what you are talking about.
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