The American air traffic control system is horribly outdated by international standards. Not only is this unsafe and has led to many crashes, but it also creates large numbers of travel delays.
yea they have been trying to get the planes on direct routes using GPS or some other technology and it is still not perfect, but look how much traffic is in the air. The highways are a little crowded and there is need of work on them too, but we move alot more stuff faster than anyone in the world.
By Robert VerBruggen
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com
Privatize Air-Traffic Control
By Robert VerBruggen
September 23, 2011 4:00 A.M.
In the GOP debate on September 7, moderator Brian Williams asked candidate Ron Paul if the government has a role in “air-traffic control, controlling the jets above our heads.”
“I think in theory,” Paul replied, “if you understood the free market in a free society, you don’t need government to do that.”
Williams seemed taken aback; he evidently thought that without the federal government, there would be no air-traffic control at all: “All the pilots in the sky, to add to their responsibilities, their own air-traffic control, in an organic way?” And the comment brought Paul ridicule from the Left, including Talking Points Memo.
But just two weeks later, none other than Peter Orszag — formerly the director of the Office of Management and Budget for the Obama administration, and currently a Citigroup executive — endorsed a kind of privatized air-traffic control in a Bloomberg op-ed. This is not only a good idea; it’s a centrist one.
http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/278042