Has anyone found, or created, an easy to read, one page summary of the ATC privatization fight?
Point: "FAA-ATO service has never had any genuine incentive to modernize or operate efficiently and therefore costs more than it should because politicians (and general tax fund flows) stand between service provider and users."
Counterpoint: "So? It still works - right? It's just a ruse by the airlines to steal our airspace."
Consider these numbers (values are US dollars):
The 2015 average ATC cost per
continental IFR flight hour of 25 members of the "Civil Air Navigation Organizations" (CANSO) was $360.
The figure for privatized Nav Canada was ~$330.
The figure for socialized FAA-ATO was ~$450.
The 2015 average ATC cost per
oceanic IFR flight hour of 5 oceanic members of CANSO was $100.
The figure for privatized Nav Canada was ~$62.
The figure for socialized FAA-ATO was ~$99.
Source: "Global Air Navigation Services Performance Report 2016
2011 – 2015 ANSP Performance Results"
Everyone with a brain in the airline business knows that no one but the richest in GA could stomach those dollar costs. They know that ATC at those prices was intended to serve only them and therefore another cost of doing business - GA couldn't possibly make a dent in it. And as a cost of doing business they would want some control over it - the more substantial the cost, the more interest in finding ways of controlling it. So it should come as no shock that airlines would like a substantial representation in any ATC organization.
