It’s time to free the skies.
John Stossel writes:
Wonder why your flight is late?
Why planes keep circling?
Why even after you’ve landed, you sometimes can’t deplane?
Bad weather plays a role, but flying is also nastier because American airports use 50-year-old technology.
This shouldn’t surprise us. Government bureaucracies are always slow. That’s as true on the tarmac as everywhere else.
It’s not Federal Aviation Administration workers’ fault. They’re just following the government rulebook that says you must not change something without getting permission first. You must not buy anything without going through cumbersome acquisitions regulations.
The FAA’s new NextGen system was designed to make the system more efficient by using satellites instead of ground-based radar. It would let planes fly closer to each other, speeding up everything. This technology has existed for two decades, but because of the bureaucracy, it’s still being rolled out.
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