ATC Privization

Privatized Air traffic control organizations in France, Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom are to “operate with varying degrees of government ownership, but each runs like a business, generating their own revenue streams and making their own decisions regarding operating the air traffic system and modernizing equipment,” according to a Department of Transportation inspector general report.(2015)

The Federal Aviation Administration is a public entity that is responsible for overseeing all aspects of aviation in the United States and some other parts of the country, such as operating the air traffic control regulations and safety in the United States. There are a lot of reason why privatizing is to regulate air-traffic controls from the FAA's regulatory duties making sure the pilots and planes are safe to fly across the world. The (ATC) air traffic control is a very important part of the aviation industry it sort of the back bone for the pilots who fly in the air.

I discovered that in the past couple of years New Zealand was the first country to end its government role in air traffic control, in the 1980s, followed by United Kingdom Australia, and Germany. Germany established a government-run corporation that controls all the ATC towers. The U.K. is a very unique public-private partnership for NATS, which oversees air traffic control in each country. “Airlines for America (A4A), the country’s primary airline trade organization, intensified its call for U.S air traffic control to be transferred from the purview of the FAA to the auspices of a nonprofit corporation that would be modeled after Canada’s NavCan”. U.S. airlines say that Canadian model has worked best over the past decades and other country’s plan using the same strategies to improve their systems.

Federal aviation administration. Department of Transportation. (2015) Retrieved from: https://www.oig.dot.gov/

Silk. R. Airline trade group continues push for ATC privatization. Retrieved date 02, December 2015. Retrieved from. http://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Airline-News/Airline-trade-group-continues-push-for-ATC-privatization