"Tom S." wrote in message
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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Automation, same as the post office.


Why is automation available to private ATC but not to public ATC?

You tell us why ATC has resisted automation. (ie jobs)

The same reason the phone companies were twenty years late installing
automatic switching equipment in the 50's and 60's. (The Communications
Unions were damn strong....then).

Same as Boeing brought in contractors to implement DCAC, in order to
eliminate a large amount of human tabbing of engineering; where a computer
could do the work. Without the change, Boeing would have effectively
conceded the civil transport manufacturing business to Europe and SPEEA
would be a memory. Not that Boeing could not have still made plenty of
money.