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Canada’s Private ATC System Offers Alternative for Cost-cutting Nations

Controllers were among the groups that embraced the 1996 privatization of Canada’s ATC system, anticipating that a nongovernment agency would encounter fewer bureaucratic roadblocks. Nav Canada funds itself purely through fees collected.

By AIN Staff • AIN Staff

January 1, 2012

Despite the dire consequences predicted for Europe’s economy if the euro actually comes unglued, or the monthly chaos that ensues at the U.S. Congress’s failure to reauthorize the FAA, nudging close to the brink of financial disaster can sometimes lead to an epiphany and a new way to consider an old problem. Consider, for example, a nation’s air traffic control system.

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