Why . I don't get this at all. Why privatize? What is the benefit? All I see this doing is decreasing safety.
Here's a helpful article: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/air-traffic-control-tech-...
Trump announces plans to privatize US air traffic control system
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I too look forward to the grand efficiencies that can only come from upholding share holder value above customer safety. Flying will be so much more exciting.
It would be a non-profit corporation. This doesn't have anything to do with increasing shareholder value.
But it would be controlled by a board, which would include representatives of the big airlines, and several other seats that could likely end up controlled by the same. So, effectively, I'd expect them to end up beholden to airline company shareholders moreso than the agency currently is.
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#23My guess is that he has some personal vendetta against them for something that happened causing him to be delayed 5 minutes on his private jet.
not quite; a Republican Congressman has had this plan ready to go for some time, and it fits the theme of "infrastructure" so it was easy to do an announcement about it.
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#24Judging by how the privatization of rail traffic in the UK worked out - terrible idea!
The situations are not remotely analogous.
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#25A monolithic private institution doesn't inspire confidence in me any more than a monolithic public one. I don't see the purpose in switching one for the other, and would probably rather see it run by the government.
If it was replacing the current system with one where you had 12 different companies competing with one another, maybe so but I don't really see the benefit in what I'm reading. But I don't feel strongly about it.
What worries me the most about this in some ways is how it seems to be focused on the large airlines and not on passengers and private pilots. This is the current trend that disturbs me the most about Trump and the GOP: they seem pretty blatantly to be representing large corporations and their own party rather than the public at large. The assumption seems to be that what benefits the fat cats is what benefits everyone.
I'm not anti-large-corporation per se, but a big part of the reason for democracy is to protect the average person.
I don't really see any arguments here other than "it makes the airlines happy." As if they needed more latitude.
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Do you think government performs better in that regard than well regulated private industry? There are plenty of air-traffic control horror stories, and it appears to be systemic: https://www.rt.com/usa/312138-secret-faa-study-chronic-fatig...
Don't forget to take everything RT says with a pretty major "grain of salt."
As in, RT doesn't allow content that doesn't criticize America to be published.
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I too look forward to the grand efficiencies that can only come from upholding share holder value above customer safety. Flying will be so much more exciting.
It would be a non-profit corporation. This doesn't have anything to do with increasing shareholder value.
Just because there's no incentive to reward shareholders doesn't mean there isn't incentive to maximize efficiency. Too many people wrongly assume that just because it says nonprofit that they are instantly humanitarians working toward the betterment of society.
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#28Judging by how the privatization of rail traffic in the UK worked out - terrible idea!
The UK's privatised air-traffic system is a model studied Worldwide; the stakeholders include a group of seven
airlines, yet it remains non-partisan and is amongst the most efficient globally.
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I too look forward to the grand efficiencies that can only come from upholding share holder value above customer safety. Flying will be so much more exciting.
It would be a non-profit corporation. This doesn't have anything to do with increasing shareholder value.
> This doesn't have anything to do with increasing shareholder value.
> The plan drew immediate support from most airlines
> the White House said the 13-member board of directors for the new corporation should be made up of appointees from industry stakeholder groups
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I too look forward to the grand efficiencies that can only come from upholding share holder value above customer safety. Flying will be so much more exciting.
It would be a non-profit corporation. This doesn't have anything to do with increasing shareholder value.
So are the RIAA/MPAA and the NFL until recently.