Thread: CNN article on problems in Air Travel, as seen by FAA
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Old October 31st 07, 09:07 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.travel.air
Larry Dighera
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Default CNN article on problems in Air Travel, as seen by FAA
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:52:22 GMT, (John Kulp)
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a. why is the FAA going ahead with the building of the system?

The former Clinton administration opposed ATC privatization.

The current administration wants to privatize virtually every
government service. In the case of the FAA, privatization would
enable FAA to cut their workforce significantly, dodge liability
exposure, and open the federal coffers to by outsourcing to big
business.

Big business benefits from government privatization. Consider
Halliburton's contract to do the Army's laundry in Iraq[1] for
example.

Privatization also removes government accountability; private
corporations are not subject to FOIA requests, for example.


b. why are the airlines backing that change?

The airline industry, including the airliner manufacturers, would like
nothing better than to remove congressional FAA budget oversight, and
wrest the balanced governmental allocation of National Airspace System
resources from US citizens, so that they can advance their air carrier
agenda at the expense of other airspace users. Airliner manufacturer,
Boeing, is also in the privatized ATC business.[2]





[1]
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...=iraq+for+sale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cJlJudDtVE
http://www.iraqforsale.org



[2] http://www.boeing.com/phantom/ast/atm.html