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"David Bridgham" wrote in message ... If you look at ATC services as being people who talk to you on the radio and tell you where to go, then you're probably right. It's hard to see how there could be competing services with that system. However, if you look at ATC services as primarily being separation and sequencing into the busiest airports, then I think we can find different mechanisms for those that might allow for competition. Start with a decent spec for air to air datalink and once pilots can "see" other traffic, they can supply their own separation. Competition is now between the vendors of radios that provide this service. I don't see any free market competition among providers of ATC services there. It appears to me you've eliminated the provision of ATC services! Who then is responsible for separation? Sequencing is a little harder but not much. The easy way out is to say that it's still done by people on the ground talking on radios and the competition is simply that which comes from bidding on the contract to execute this service for the various airports that need it. But then there'd be no free market competition among providers of ATC services. |
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