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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.

If you would like to receive the monthly Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter via email, please send an email with your contact information to the newsletter's author, Robert Poole, Reason's director of transportation studies.

Reason's Air Traffic Control research and commentary is available here.

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• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #58
  Topics include: call for independent ATO; making better use of closely-spaced runways; Europe moves SESAR forward; reviewing the NextGen executive order; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  November 1, 2008
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #57
  Topics include: ADS-B and the consensus requirement; business jets soar where user fees prevail; pricing and bad weather; competition for control towers; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  October 1, 2008
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #56
  Topics include: controversy over implementing NextGen ATC; FAA safety culture under attack; commercialized ANSPs; getting aircraft owners to equip for NextGen; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  September 1, 2008
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #55
  Topics include: separating safety regulation from ATC operations; re-regulation the wrong approach to airline crisis; ADS-B: from Capstone to what?; controllers and NextGen; affluent suburbanites vs. airspace redesign; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  July 1, 2008
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #54
  Topics include: controller training and adequate ATC staffing; some progress on Single European Sky; DayJet to pioneer NextGen operations; populist attack on business jets; progress at Flight Service Stations; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  June 1, 2008
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #53
  Topics include: ATC reform and emission reduction; GPS landing systems here now; new book challenging US aviation; getting NextGen implemented; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  May 1, 2008
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #52
  Topics include: the no-reform FAA reauthorization; U.S. vs. Europe on ATC modernization; FAA "re-baselining," continued; synthetic vision--a key to capacity expansion; controllers' role in NextGen; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  April 1, 2008
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #51
  Topics include: concerns over FAA's plan for ADS-B; Inspector General on general aviation's ATC usage; the staffed "virtual tower"; controller hiring
  Robert Poole
  March 1, 2008
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #50
  Topics include: FAA budget woes-again; the $25 modernization surcharge; a GPS backup plan; environmental benefits of ATC reform; runway capacity and ATC modernization; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  February 1, 2008
• Air Traffic Control Reform Newsletter #49
  Topics include: an economist's approach to ATC reform; fixing runway incursions; world's best ATC providers; implementation failure--a warning for NextGen; misrepresenting air traffic delays; and other news.
  Robert Poole
  January 1, 2008

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