The Challenges Facing Our Air Travel System
I wanted to share a recent conversation I had with a really remarkable person
During the recent government shutdown, much of the coverage focused on flight delays and the fact that our nation’s air traffic controllers were working without pay. It made me want to look more closely at the challenges facing our air travel system today.
As millions of Americans prepare to travel for the holidays, I wanted to share a recent conversation I had with a really remarkable person.
James Fallows is a longtime book and magazine writer, worked in the White House writing for President Jimmy Carter, and he is also a longtime private pilot, who writes frequently about aviation and aviation-safety. You can follow his work by subscribing to his Substack newsletter: Breaking the News. You can also read more about his work below the video!
Of his 12 books, three concern aviation — Free Flight, published in 2001; China Airborne, published in 2012 after he had reported from China for four years. and ‘Our Towns,’ published in 2018, based on a multi-year reporting trip he and his wife Deborah Fallows, who grew up in Ohio and is also a writer, took to smaller communities all across the US. That book was the basis for a 2022 movie still available on HBO Max, called ‘Our Towns.’
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This was an interesting discussion, Governor Kasich. I just wish that you had spent thirty minutes (or more) on each of the three main subjects discussed:
1) Is ATC a reflection of the role of mature institutions and individual expertise when protecting the public from the risks while also promoting the benefits of "progress"...
2) Was "Breaking the News" as diagnosed by Fallows in 1996 evident to you while in the Congress (or otherwise), and is its current broken state the result (assuming you agree that it is broken)?
3) Do you believe that "We, The People" have been fooling ourselves for 250 years that we can work together to build a better world for all without direct dependence on our religious convictions for guidance?