Air travel in America isn’t great—and that’s putting it lightly. Our nation’s antiquated air traffic control systems cost Americans tens of billions of dollars annually.
That includes tens of thousands of years of lost time annually due to flight delays and cancellations, as well as higher prices caused by preventable limits on the supply of flights.
But lost money isn’t the only consequence of our antiquated system: Failing infrastructure is leading to communication outages that risk passenger safety.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has rightly called for a complete overhaul of the system, asking for tens of billions of dollars in new taxpayer funding to that end. In his words, the current system “is not worth saving.”
But instead of relying on the already debt-ridden federal government to finance an air traffic overhaul and on the innately…
