> U.S. debate to privitize air-traffic control spotlights Canada
Heaven forbid, we would pay the Canadians for what they have that is already proven to work well and efficiently...
Heaven forbid, we would pay the Canadians for what they have that is already proven to work well and efficiently...
Yep. Came here to suggest that. The problem is the old system is surely being maintained by someone and a purchase of a new system will mean less spending in some congress persons district. This is an explanation of course, not a justification.
Maybe NavCanada can slowly scale up by exporting it to bigger and bigger countries until its big enough for American airports.
> Nav Canada manages 12 million aircraft movements a year for 40,000 customers in over 18 million square kilometres, making it the world’s second-largest air navigation service provider (ANSP) by traffic volume
usa:
> In 2006 En Route and Oceanic Services supported 47 million operations in the national airspace system. We are responsible for controlling more than 5,600,000 square miles (15,000,000 km2) of airspace in the U.S. and more than 24,600,000 square miles (64,000,000 km2) of airspace over the oceans.
roughly 1/4 the volume, I'm willing hazard a guess it would scale.
I think this attitude is a big danger for the US. There was a time when the US could teach the world but that time is coming to an end. Other countries have learned whatever advantages the US system has and now they are building on that knowledge and they are sometimes coming up with better solutions. If the US keeps ignoring these developments it will slowly fall behind until it's too late.