WSJ editorial in favor of private ATC

[wsuffa]

(paywall if you're not a subscriber)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/private-jet-setters-against-better-air-travel-1518652486

[quoteAir travel is becoming less pleasant, and according to one analysis the average time from push back to arrival is increasing on many routes—more than 80 minutes from D.C. to New York LaGuardia, up from 67 minutes in 1990. Apparently that hasn’t been an issue for the folks flying in and out of Teterboro.[/quote]

Yes, it's less pleasant, but instead of forcing the airlines to improve things for the passengers, they would rather push to make things worse for GA. Let's bring everyone down to the airline's level.

And what if accidents go up? Well, the solution might be to severely limit GA and get more GA planes out of the air.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

How's the Post Office and Amtrak working out for you?

Neither of these are examples of truly free markets; rather they are government subsidized corporations.

The post office has an outright legal monopoly on the delivery of first class mail.

Passenger trains, while I personally enjoy them, just don’t seem like an economically viable proposition on much of the country.

Of course it is a bit hard to say, since virtually every major form of transportation, trains, highways, airlines, have had major government subsidies along the way.