It’s Past Time To Privatize Disaster-Plagued Air Traffic Control

George Mocsary November 18, 2025

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Abstract

As the government shutdown ends, so hopefully will the crisis at our airports. Air traffic controllers, deemed “essential” but forced to work without pay, called in sick, and our national aviation system’s fragility was on display.

This predictable chaos is both a political and structural failure. And it has a clear solution: Get the federal government out of the air traffic control business. The airlines — the primary commercial beneficiaries of this essential service — should pay the controllers’ salaries.

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