“Business jets pose a serious problem for the future of the aviation system,” writes George Donohue in Terminal Chaos: Why U.S. Air Travel is Broken and How to Fix It. “They carry far fewer passengers per plane and thus are inefficient in their use of the airspace, where the number of aircraft hulls [is] the best measure of how crowded the airspace is. They also subtract from the legacy airlines passengers who are most needed to make the airlines profitable,” write Donohue and co-author Russell Shaver. The pair kicked off a book and lecture tour on July 29 at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., sponsored by their publisher, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Donohue was previously an FAA associate administrator for research and acquisitions, and now runs the center for air transportation systems research at George Mason University. Shaver is a former analyst at think tank Rand.
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