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Air Traffic Control Newsletter #103
GAO on RNP's slow progress, How cost-effective are ATC providers? and More...
May 16, 2013In this issue:
- GAO on RNP's slow progress
- How cost-effective are ATC providers?
- Some progress on NextGen equipage
- More new ideas for the Single European Sky
- Wake vortex mitigation tested in Europe
- News Notes
- Quotable Quotes
Airport Policy and Security News #90
Fixing London's airport mess, TSA expanding trusted traveler, and more
May 6, 2013In this issue:
- Fixing London's airport mess
- TSA expanding trusted traveler
- President responds on airport PFCs
- Miami planning Airport City PPP
- Gary Airport PPP proposed
- Will Charlotte convert to an airport authority?
- Upcoming Conference
- News Notes
- Quotable Quote
Air Traffic Control Newsletter #102
Backlash over politicized air traffic control funding, user taxes vs. user fees—a big difference
April 23, 2013In this issue:
- Backlash over politicized ATC funding
- User taxes vs. user fees—a big difference
- IG confirms large increase in ATC errors
- Using real-time weather data in aviation
- Slow progress on GPS back-up
- News Notes
- Quotable Quotes
Airport Policy and Security News #89
Major airports offer to give up federal grants, Pocket knives on planes, Airglades Airport moves toward privatization, Industry fights contract tower shutdown, Airport privatization news from Europe
April 8, 2013In this issue:
- Major airports offer to give up federal grants
- Pocket knives on planes
- Airglades Airport moves toward privatization
- Industry fights contract tower shutdown
- Airport privatization news from Europe
- Upcoming Conference
- News Notes
- Quotable Quote
Air Traffic Control Newsletter #101
The benefits of air traffic control consolidation, Congress holds ATC hostage to budget cuts and lower aviation growth forecast by FAA
April 3, 2013In this issue:
- ATC facility consolidation savings
- Congress holds ATC hostage to budget cuts
- Lower aviation growth forecast by FAA
- CANSO offering ATC billing service
- Major challenges to Single European Sky
- News Notes
- Quotable Quotes
Annual Privatization Report 2013
Privatization trends in local, state and federal government, plus roads, highways, aviation, education, telecom and more
April 1, 2013Now in its 26th year of publication, Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report is the world's longest running and most comprehensive report on privatization news, developments and trends.
Annual Privatization Report 2013 (APR 2013) details the latest on privatization and government reform initiatives at all levels of government. The individual sections, which will be released in the weeks ahead, include:
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- How to Reform and Get More Value From Federal Transportation Programs
Robert Poole
January 9, 2013, 1:00pm - Top 12 Transportation Stories of 2012
Baruch Feigenbaum
January 3, 2013, 10:20am - Airport Should Ditch Agency to Provide Better Security at a Lower Cost
Baruch Feigenbaum
December 14, 2012, 2:45pm - Atlanta Needs a Second Airport
Robert Poole
June 26, 2012, 9:08am - Puerto Rico's Infrastructure Renaissance Continuing in 2012
Leonard Gilroy
May 15, 2012, 4:40pm - The Year 2011 in Surface Transportation and Aviation Privatization
Baruch Feigenbaum
April 26, 2012, 10:53am - Public Employees Spurn Concessions in Connecticut
Harris Kenny
July 5, 2011, 3:59pm - New at Reason: Annual Privatization Report 2010
Leonard Gilroy
February 10, 2011, 3:32pm - Rethinking the FAA Budget
Robert Poole
February 7, 2011, 2:20pm - Volcano Eruption and Air Travel's Economic Importance
Robert Poole
April 23, 2010, 1:30pm - Highway Trust Fund Solvent for Another Nine Months
Shirley Ybarra
March 21, 2010, 11:01am - Chicago Business and Labor Leaders: Time to Privatize Midway Airport
Leonard Gilroy
February 17, 2010, 1:44pm - Limping Along on Aviation Funding Authorization
Shirley Ybarra
December 10, 2009, 10:19am - Five Keys Issues Facing Aviation and Transportation Secretary LaHood
Robert Poole
December 2, 2009, 5:28pm - Renewed Interest in Midway Airport Lease?
Leonard Gilroy
November 11, 2009, 3:17pm - Bob Poole (Quoted by Steve Forbes) Has It Right: Airline Deregulation is not to Blame
Shirley Ybarra
November 11, 2009, 11:00am - Airport Security (Lack Thereof) or the Right Methods?
Shirley Ybarra
November 9, 2009, 10:46am - Surface and Aviation Funding on a Three Month Fix?
Shirley Ybarra
September 21, 2009, 12:49pm - FAA Gives New Orleans Go-Ahead on Airport Privatization
Leonard Gilroy
September 16, 2009, 9:45pm - Airport Projects Funded by Stimulus Package Questioned
Shirley Ybarra
August 12, 2009, 1:20pm - Reason on Airport Privatization, Post-Midway
Leonard Gilroy
August 3, 2009, 5:29pm - Good News for Taxpayers: Lower Than Expected Bids Continue for Stimulus Projects
Shirley Ybarra
July 22, 2009, 11:29am - Airport Congestion Costs New York Billions
Robert Poole
June 18, 2009, 2:01pm - Looking Into Airport Parking Privatization in Pittsburgh
Robert Poole
June 18, 2009, 1:50pm - LaHood: Government Better at Managing Air Congestion?
Samuel Staley
May 16, 2009, 9:30am - Chicago Exploring Alternative Privatization Models for Midway Airport
Leonard Gilroy
May 8, 2009, 7:37pm - Chicago Keeps $126 Million from Canceled Midway Airport Privatization
Leonard Gilroy
April 22, 2009, 7:08am - Chicago's Midway Airport Privatization Deal Collapses
Robert Poole
April 21, 2009, 11:20am - Government Intervention And The Archaic Rules Of Airline Ownership
Robert Poole
April 15, 2009, 12:20am - Midway Airport Lease Deal Is Too Important to Fall Through
Robert Poole
April 8, 2009, 3:11pm - FedEx May Cancel Order of 15 Boeing 777Fs If Congress Passes Unions Bill
Robert Poole
March 26, 2009, 1:46am - Airport Privatization Being Proposed In A Soft Market
Robert Poole
March 19, 2009, 5:15pm - Midway Airport Lease Could Inspire Austin, Milwaukee and New Orleans
Robert Poole
November 11, 2008, 12:32pm - Is There A Problem With FAA's Safety Culture?
Robert Poole
October 8, 2008, 7:54am - Not Even Close: Chicago City Council Unanimously Approves $2.5 Midway Airport Lease
Leonard Gilroy
October 7, 2008, 11:54am - Chicago City Council Committee Approves Midway Deal
Leonard Gilroy
October 6, 2008, 12:36pm - Implementing Next Generation Air Traffic Control System
Robert Poole
October 6, 2008, 8:53am - So Far, So Good on Midway Airport Lease
Leonard Gilroy
October 4, 2008, 11:20pm - Midway Airport Lease Deal
Robert Poole
September 29, 2008, 2:51pm - Mayor Daley Announces Winning $2.5B Bid for 99-Year Midway Airport Lease
Leonard Gilroy
September 29, 2008, 2:13pm - Want the Latest on Airport Privatization and Air Traffic Control Reform?
Leonard Gilroy
August 27, 2008, 5:33pm - Air Traffic Computer Woes and Long Travel Delays
Robert Poole
August 26, 2008, 11:41am - Air Traffic Controllers - Too Many or Too Few?
Robert Poole
August 21, 2008, 8:22am - Sen. Schumer Wants to Protect Airlines From Competition
Robert Poole
August 17, 2008, 1:32pm - Air Transport Association Sues Over Newark Auction
Robert Poole
August 10, 2008, 12:59pm - Newark Runway Slot Auction a Step in the Right Direction
Robert Poole
August 6, 2008, 9:11am - Leasing Chicago's Midway Airport
Robert Poole
May 8, 2008, 9:55am - Planes Barely Avoid Mid-Air Collision
Robert Poole
March 6, 2008, 7:53am - New Reason Study: How to Reduce Air Travel Delays
Chris Mitchell
March 5, 2008, 12:59pm - WSJ: Gridlock in the Air
Geoffrey Segal
July 20, 2007, 7:16am - Time to Rethink Airport Security
Ted Balaker
August 9, 2006, 10:39am - The Smoky Skies
Ted Balaker
July 11, 2006, 10:27am - Private Space Flight Keeps on Moving and Shaking
Ted Balaker
May 31, 2006, 1:49pm - Private Space Travel Possible if only Government Would Get Out of the Way
Adam Summers
May 8, 2006, 9:08pm - "It's like an upside-down bungee jump"
Ted Balaker
March 18, 2006, 7:58pm - Airport Privatization Proceeds in India
Leonard Gilroy
February 6, 2006, 5:24am - Space X Launch Today @ 11am PST
Ted Balaker
December 18, 2005, 9:46am - Let airports take over
Ted Balaker
October 18, 2005, 5:25pm - Space tourist returns to earth
Ted Balaker
October 10, 2005, 5:45pm - View all aircraft over major airports--live!
Adrian Moore
October 3, 2005, 12:15pm - Sure weíve been screwing up for decades, but how about another $104 billion?
Ted Balaker
October 3, 2005, 10:42am - 14 Lives and $250 Billion Later
Ted Balaker
September 27, 2005, 12:31pm - Space tourism spreads to Japan
Ted Balaker
August 18, 2005, 9:52am - Space tourists already getting more choices
Ted Balaker
August 9, 2005, 2:37pm - Discovery lands safely. What now?
Ted Balaker
August 9, 2005, 10:19am - Entrepreneurs or Bureaucracies?
Ted Balaker
August 4, 2005, 10:07am - The Spaceship Company
Ted Balaker
July 26, 2005, 5:42pm - Planet Regulation
Ted Balaker
June 21, 2005, 4:33pm - Make way for private space flight
Ted Balaker
May 23, 2005, 9:17am - Tougher to break through: the earthís atmosphere or fed bureaucracy?
Ted Balaker
May 19, 2005, 1:20pm - "If you don't have a consensus that it's nonsense, you don't have a breakthrough."
Ted Balaker
April 26, 2005, 1:22pm - Rutan: FAA ìjust about ruined my program"
Ted Balaker
April 20, 2005, 12:19pm - TSA Doesn't Work...Are You Surprised?
Geoffrey Segal
April 19, 2005, 5:44am - TSA Shakeup in the Works
Leonard Gilroy
April 7, 2005, 7:49am - California Conquered Space?
Ted Balaker
April 4, 2005, 9:36am - Low fares, high quality
Ted Balaker
April 3, 2005, 1:11pm - The Father of Private Space Flight
Ted Balaker
March 30, 2005, 9:35am - Space entrepreneur could get 80 years
Ted Balaker
March 1, 2005, 4:50pm - Free the skies
Ted Balaker
January 27, 2005, 10:45am - FAA Poised to Announce Competition Results
Geoffrey Segal
January 4, 2005, 5:39am - What are you doing with your life?
Ted Balaker
January 3, 2005, 9:52am - SpaceShipOneís not the only one
Ted Balaker
December 21, 2004, 4:19pm - Reforming the skies
Ted Balaker
December 16, 2004, 10:25am - Black Sky: The Race for Space
Ted Balaker
December 1, 2004, 9:54am - More on private airport security
Ted Balaker
November 17, 2004, 8:28am - The cost of fat fliers
Ted Balaker
November 11, 2004, 7:34am - Mr. President, Sen. Kerry, do you have a moment for space policy?
Ted Balaker
October 28, 2004, 10:38am - Burt Rutanís vision
Ted Balaker
October 25, 2004, 11:32am - Privatize the space station?
Ted Balaker
October 17, 2004, 5:32pm - More X Prizes
Ted Balaker
October 5, 2004, 3:36pm - X Prize (probably) claimed
Ted Balaker
October 3, 2004, 9:53am - Communications breakdown
Ted Balaker
September 15, 2004, 10:01am - Three years later, are we safer?
Ted Balaker
September 12, 2004, 12:00pm - ìWithin the next two to three years there will be tickets available for sub-orbital flightsî
Ted Balaker
August 24, 2004, 10:00am - Bombs or Pot?
Ted Balaker
July 7, 2004, 2:56pm - Airports Can Go Private Soon
Geoffrey Segal
June 24, 2004, 9:08am - FAA Needs Controllers
Geoffrey Segal
June 23, 2004, 6:57am - Makiní history
Ted Balaker
June 21, 2004, 5:24pm - "Professional demeanor, attire and attitude gain respect"
Ted Balaker
May 31, 2004, 2:01pm - Private astronaut enters space
Ted Balaker
May 13, 2004, 1:22pm - ìSure kid, an astronautî
Ted Balaker
April 27, 2004, 3:21pm - Pricing in the sky
Ted Balaker
April 4, 2004, 1:28pm - ATC Privatization Fight...Again
Geoffrey Segal
February 4, 2004, 8:17pm - Bringing Performance to the FAA
Geoffrey Segal
December 10, 2003, 12:46pm - Bush still backs ATC outsourcing
Ted Balaker
November 16, 2003, 11:13am - Italian Airline Privatization Taking Off
Adrian Moore
November 13, 2003, 3:02am - Tourists in space?
Ted Balaker
October 27, 2003, 11:25pm
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