The Federal Aviation Administration says flights departing for Los Angeles International Airport were halted briefly due to a staffing shortage at a Southern California air traffic facility.
There is really no mechanism for their private jets to have traffic coverage that wouldn’t be given to other air traffic
The American air traffic system has a rather egalitarian design that I’m a big fan of. By and large traffic is treated equally. I, in a small GA plane, can fly into nearly* any civilian airport just like a private jet or commercial airliner. Air traffic control is a public service provided for free to anyone that needs it. A good example of where socialism has worked well
*There are some minor exceptions, for example LAX requires prior authorization for unscheduled GA aircraft at the moment. That and ATC may make a GA aircraft wait for a while before sequencing, but that’s mostly a practicality issue, since they need to give a small plane a lot more time to land and space to avoid wake turbulence
If I’m letting someone out on my commute, a factor is how many people are in the vehicle. If it’s a bus, they automatically get courtesy as who am I to delay 50 people to save myself 10 seconds.
ATC should be the same with private jets - they only get a slot once all the bigger planes have landed
There is really no mechanism for their private jets to have traffic coverage that wouldn’t be given to other air traffic
The American air traffic system has a rather egalitarian design that I’m a big fan of. By and large traffic is treated equally. I, in a small GA plane, can fly into nearly* any civilian airport just like a private jet or commercial airliner. Air traffic control is a public service provided for free to anyone that needs it. A good example of where socialism has worked well
*There are some minor exceptions, for example LAX requires prior authorization for unscheduled GA aircraft at the moment. That and ATC may make a GA aircraft wait for a while before sequencing, but that’s mostly a practicality issue, since they need to give a small plane a lot more time to land and space to avoid wake turbulence
See, does that go far enough?
If I’m letting someone out on my commute, a factor is how many people are in the vehicle. If it’s a bus, they automatically get courtesy as who am I to delay 50 people to save myself 10 seconds.
ATC should be the same with private jets - they only get a slot once all the bigger planes have landed