It’s better than all the rest but its decline can be traced to the time it was placed under the DOT.
About as much as you want to trust the Department of Education to teach your kids sufficiently to compete in the world.
About as well as government agencies setup traffic lights.
Q: Can the FAA Be Trusted to Fix Air Traffic Control?
A: F=Federal
Therefore, NO.
You can’t trust the government to “fix” anything.
Can the FAA Be Trusted to Fix Air Traffic Control?
Can the Obama-butt be trusted to provide an real birth certificate?
Is Nancy Pelosi really a female?
Did Jimmy Carter ever have a brain?
Did Bill Clinton “never have sex with that woman?
The only thing I can trust the federal government to fix, is to fix it so that they are more in control.
What would you do instead? Have a Czar work with a blue ribbon congressional committee that reports directly to the WH?
If it was up to me, it would be turned over to the Department of Defense (DoD).
Privatization of ATC might work if you got the government to take the insurance liability.
No! The FAA is being run by non-pilots and non-aviation morons.
PATCO screwed it up, then FAA caught a break and had a great opportunity to fix it, but....
Pressure to rebuild quickly, exacerbated by intense EEO mandates brought about another union that management essentially turned the day-to-day operation over to.
The genie is out of the bottle, the cadre of experienced personnel that is essential to ANY operation is gone now, replaced by scared kids who duck traffic and only stay on because of massive pay and ironclad union protection.
If you fly at all, thank your lucky stars for technology like TCAS...don't fly without it.