Time to Privatize U.S. Air Traffic Control—Copy Canada’s Model

When air traffic controllers don’t show up, the whole country feels it. Yesterday’s FAA ground stop at Reagan National rippled into thousands of flight delays nationwide — a symptom of a deeper, long-running problem. The U.S. aviation system, critics say, is underfunded, overworked, and trapped in politics. Canada faced the same challenge decades ago and solved it by turning air traffic control into a self-funded, non-profit utility. The lesson: when reliability depends on performance, not politics, the planes — and the system — run smoother. Alex Tabarrok writing at Marginal Revolution has the commentary worth a read.

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