Bill to Privatize US ATC...

the article said:
The chairmen of the budget-writing appropriations committees, Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., and Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., have each gone on record opposing the plan.
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This is your answer.

No appropriation means no go.
 
hook_dupin said:
This is your answer.

No appropriation means no go.
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Maybe. Appropriations committees can have changes of heart/policy when money....I mean lobbyists....er...um....I mean free speech....starts influencing the process.

I'm also wondering if the extra stuff in the bill (read the fifth 'graph from the bottom re: certification getting easier) is riding as sort of a test-bed to see if the other stuff could pass on its own.
 
I haven't read the bill yet but we got an email from NATCA (ATC Union) saying they have read the bill and they support it.
 
NovemberEcho said:
I haven't read the bill yet but we got an email from NATCA (ATC Union) saying they have read the bill and they support it.
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Really? That's....surprising. Similar efforts have incurred the wrath of NATCA in the past.
 
killbilly said:
Really? That's....surprising. Similar efforts have incurred the wrath of NATCA in the past.
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I interpreted that to mean "NATCA approves of the current draft authorization bill." It sounded like the privatization scheme would be introduced in a separate bill in June.
 
Skimming over it, for controllers, every benefit we currently have must be retained with the exception of leave accrual not being specifically mentioned. There will be an arbitration process as there is now.

No user fees for pistons, non commercial turbine, "remote area air taxi operators" or militaty.
 
Yes, as written, NATCA supports it. They also stress that while the word "privatization" will be used by most media outlets to describe it, that's not really accurate. It would really be a Federally chartered non-profit corporation. ATC pay, benefits, retirement etc remain in place, and they believe it places safety and the integrity of the NAS first. They also state they reserve their right to withdraw support pending any subsequent changes. Don't know how it would affect pilots, whether commercial or private.
 
SFLAX said:
Actually it was supposed to self funded through postage. Good thing that worked.
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And it would be self-funding except Congress passed a poison pill piece of legislation a few years that would ensure they never achieve self-funding. The USPS was required to fund all health care costs 75 years in advance, and to do so over a ten-year time frame. That allows a certain pro-privatization party in Congress to make it appear USPS are a failure, and to sell them off to private industry at some point in the future.

But it's not a failure of the USPS; it's a failure of Congress. Just as is the current move to privatize ATC.
 
I've yet to hear from a single union controller who thinks this is a good idea. I'm 100% against any measure that takes controllers out of the federal government and allows the airlines to regulate themselves. NATCA goes from having half the say (agency v union) to having 9% of the say on an 11 member panel dominated by airlines?!? This is beyond ridiculous...
 
RDoug said:
And it would be self-funding except Congress passed a poison pill piece of legislation a few years that would ensure they never achieve self-funding. The USPS was required to fund all health care costs 75 years in advance, and to do so over a ten-year time frame. That allows a certain pro-privatization party in Congress to make it appear USPS are a failure, and to sell them off to private industry at some point in the future.

But it's not a failure of the USPS; it's a failure of Congress. Just as is the current move to privatize ATC.
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So how much do you think a package and or a letter would cost if this was 100% the reason they are billions in the whole each year? It's lack of understanding your product and not wanting to do the correct thing and privatize it.
 
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