Reason Foundation Challenges NATCA Study Findings

The Reason Foundation, a West Coast public policy think tank that promotes privatization of government, challenged the National Air Traffic Controllers Ass

By AIN Staff • AIN Staff

October 12, 2007

The Reason Foundation, a West Coast public policy think tank that promotes privatization of government, challenged the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) report that denounced ATC privatization, claiming that “corporatized” air traffic control providers handle more than 80 percent of the world’s air traffic and that safety has improved in countries such as Canada and the UK since these nations corporatized operations.

“Overall, the white paper is off-target, in that much of its argument is directed against a form of privatization–outsourcing–that no one has seriously proposed for the national ATC system,” said Robert Poole Jr., founder of the Reason Foundation. “The white paper does acknowledge several examples of ATC reform overseas that do follow the models proposed for this nation: conversion of the FAA’s existing ATC organization into a user-fee-supported business entity.”

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