"Matthew S. Whiting" wrote in message
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Because most private companies that perform functions similar to
governmental agencies are more efficient.


Sure, susccessful private companies are forced by competition to be more
efficient or fail. But you can't have competition in ATC.



I think new technology would
be adopted faster and with less bureaucracy.


Why?



I think controller
performance would be rewarded more effectively.


There used to be rewards for superior controller performance, but no longer.



Last I knew, most civil
service jobs still had a lot of focus on seniority, more like a union
workforce in the private sector than a professional workforce in the
private sector.


About all seniority does today in ATC is select prime time leave.



No way to know for sure unless it happens, but I'd bet money on greater
efficiency.


Why should that be the case in the US? It hasn't happened anywhere else.