Is Sarah Palin the answer for FAA modernization?
On the eve of the vice-presidential debate and after writing for several days about the demise of any change at the FAA and continuing problems our air traffic control system, Sarah Palin is beginning to look like just what the air traffic doctor ordered — a politician that might actually get change happening when it comes to air traffic.
Good at squabbling. Bad at solving problems.
The controversy continues over whether or not the Department of Transportation should cap the numbers of flights in the New York airspace. Now the obviously overwhelmed New York Port Authority has joined the chorus of “Let’s do nothing.”
Pursuing Passengers’ Bill of Rights is a waste of time and money
Monday, July 28, was not a fun day to be an airline passenger departing from virtually anywhere in the northeastern U.S. So much so, that some of the long airline delays even made news headlines, as in the case of from JFK to Las Vegas.
Air traffic, a government mess, we pay
Thirty years after deregulation, the government is gumming up the works. Everything for which they are responsible is crumbling or working poorly with no solution in sight.