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Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter

By Robert Poole

Reason Foundation's Air Traffic Control Newsletter examines and analyzes the latest air traffic news and developments.

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• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #39
  Topics include: Nav Canada's 10th anniversary; financing the NextGen ATC system; clear thinking on ATC User Fees; beefing up the controller workforce; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  November 1, 2006
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #38
  Topics include: mixed messages on funding Next-Generation system; contract towers' dramatic safety record; lessons from the D.C. airports restructuring; a cost-effective backup for GPS-based navigation; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  October 1, 2006
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #37
  Topics include: lessons from Lexington, ATC reform lessons from Canada & U.K.; runway incursions and operational errors; far off benefits from ADS-B; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  September 1, 2006
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #36
  Topics include: benefits of ATC reform, user fees for business aviation; the Mineta Commission report, ten years later; System Wide Information Management; and ATC privatization advances in Europe.
  Robert Poole
  July 1, 2006
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #35
  Topics include: ATC overload likely result of growth in very light jets; "base closing commission needed for ATC; speeding up RNP routes; the ATC funding crunch; and NATCA's losing contract battle.
  Robert Poole
  June 1, 2006
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #34
  Topics include: NATCA's contract gamble backfires; paying for the next generation ATC system; getting control of controllers' schedules; and business aviation prospering despite higher costs.
  Robert Poole
  May 1, 2006
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #33
  Topics include: Congress vs. ATC facility consolidation; the promise of "green landings;" Congress and the controllers' contract; and ADS-B for everyone?
  Robert Poole
  April 1, 2006
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #32
  Topics include: new study on ATC commercialization; revenue bonds for ATC modernization; facing facts on ATC facilities; and changing the rules on labor negotiations.
  Robert Poole
  February 1, 2006
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #31
  Topics include: NATCA's critique of ATC user fees; real progress on terminal-area capacity; thoughts on controller contract negotiations; and ATC commercialization's impact on Canadian bizjet sales.
  Robert Poole
  January 1, 2006

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