Air Traffic Controllers

JohnH wrote:


If fast food restaurants can offshore their drive through window order
takers (1), the FAA could easily do the same with ATC.Â*Â*TheÂ*governmentÂ*has
no allegance to it's citizens with regard to fulfilling it's vendor
requirements (2).

Ignoring the political "hot button" issue of off-shoring for a moment, I've
wondered why ATC hasn't centralized more. For example, when Potomac was
aggregated, why not include more of the east coast's traffic control? I
mean: why that far and no further?

For that matter, why separate Centers and TRACONs, even in name? Why should
it matter to me if I'm told next to contact "New York" or "Boston"?

Redundancy/Resilience? Politics? Cost? Local knowledge[1]?

- Andrew

[1] Not that that stopped aggregation of FSSs, where local knowledge
certainly does have value.