the Modern Skies Coalition, calling for strategic investment in a brand-new ATC system, rather than privatizing the current one. Industry leaders are unified: the answer isn’t privatizing ATC but investing in what already works. Others have made an effective case for modernization and against privatization in recent days, including a longtime advocate for free-market policies who told the Wall Street Journal this week that calls for ATC privatization “distract from real solutions. NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen made this point during a recent appearance on Bloomberg TV. “When we look at countries around the world which have privatized their air traffic control system – we see a number of challenges in terms of their air traffic controllers, their technology, their delays and most importantly, safety issues,” Bolen told Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week.” The right approach, experts and aviation stakeholders say, is maintaining the government-industry partnership that has kept American airspace the safest in the world while continuing to invest in modernization. NBAA and nearly 60 other aviation groups formed 16 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 11
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