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User currently offlineJMV From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 241 posts, RR: 1 |
Posted (9 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1348 times: |
The thread about delays at ORD prompts me to dust off a subject that friends and I have debated over and over again. |
Would the flying public be better served if airports (not ATC) were privately owned and operated? What about an airline going out and buying or building an airport for its own use? |
Would a free market approach to utilization of an airport that is privately operated eventually work out the over-scheduling and delays that we encounter today? Would the owners make sure that arrivals and departures were balanced throughout the day so delays were minimal in an effort to market on-time performance? |
Or is ownership and management immaterial. Is it a matter of needing more airports in or around major markets like ORD, ATL, LAX, etc. versus expansion of existing airports? |
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Reply 1, posted (9 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1334 times: |
I am not sure about soemthing with Airports and it is government control for their airports. |
Reply 2, posted (9 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1311 times: |
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe most of the airports here in the US are owned by quasi-private entities. JFK/EWR/LGA are all owned by the Port Authority of NY/NJ. SDF by the Regional Airport Authority. Those are the ones I know. Granted the PA of NY/NJ is as close to govt as you can get, but the US government do... |
I guess a better way of asking your question is: |
Would the public be better served if the airports were owned by the airlines or a corporation versus these quasi-governmental agencies? |
The scheduling delays have nothing to do with airport management per-se, they have to do with peak travel times. LAX will always be busyt when its busy now and slack when its slack. The way to minimize the impact of peak time scheduling is to add capacity. Not an easy thing to do now days. |
User currently offlineDfwRevolution From United States of America, joined Jan 2010, 858 posts, RR: 51 |
Reply 3, posted (9 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1304 times: |
The airport property (terminals, runways, taxiways, ect.) are usually privately owned. The goverment via the FAA oversees much of what goes on inside airport property, much like nuclear power stations. My power comes from a nuclear powerplant owned by TXU (a publically traded company) but to flush the toliet at that pl... |
Reply 4, posted (9 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1301 times: |
British airports are either BAA, privately owned or owned by local authorities. The locally owned ones are set up so as to be companies in their own right but the shares are held by councils and other bodies. |
Direct State management is usually disastrous. Having the airports able to trade as companies frees them from many restrictions, and companies such as MAPLC (the Manchester Airports Group) is an example of how it can work well for all concerned. |
BAA is a licence to print money and manages airports globally now. That was once state owned. All are overseen by the CAA but are financially independent of the State. |
Reply 5, posted (9 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1297 times: |
A few rambling thoughts here: |
Most US airports are owned and operated by a governmental agency, usually a city, county, or state. |
Some are owned by a governmental agency, and the operation of which is contracted out to a private firm, IND comes to mind (managed by BAA). |
Some are owned by the governmental agency, and run by an airport authority (created by but separate from the agency), ICT, MCO, PANYNJ are examples. |
In all cases, airports have to follow FAA guidelines for operation, maintenance, capital projects, etc on the airport. |
Privatizing airports is something that more and more airports have explored over the past 10 or 15 years. The thing to remember is that even though different types of organizations may own and operate different types of airports, those airports are still part of a bigger plan, a plan that is still beholding to the US g... |
I'm not sure that opening up airport ownership and operation (or creating a 'fre market approach') would necessarily help solve airspace/congestion/capacity problems at airports. After all, we deregulated the airline industry, and look at some of the messes we have today (not that dereging the airlines was a bad thing,... |
The primary benefit to privatizing airports (for the buyer) would be to create additional sources of revenue, primarily for capital improvements. The primary reason more airports are not privatized is that the agency that owns them does not want to sell what is to them a primary money-maker for the agency. ie, the City... |
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Reply 6, posted (9 years 5 months 1 week 1 day ago) and read 1269 times: |
Tom in NO, |
Indeed, many municipalities and county governments maintain ownership of airports because they are money makers. However, governments and its agencies are not created to run as a business and make a profit. They are created to provide essential services that can't be provided by the private sector, and should operate a... |
It drives me nuts when I hear candidates or politicians talk about running government like a business. Bunk! Government should run as lean as possible, probably more like a non-profit organization than a for-profit business. But I digress... |
I would love to hear more about airports that are privately owned, be it the terminals, runways and taxiways. I know that ATL is not, nor is DTW. Both are owned and operated by airport authorities - aka city or county government agencies. As others have mentioned, many others, such as the New York and Boston airports, ... |
Alas, considering it takes a government agencies decades to go through all the red tape (much of which they created themselves) and environmental impact studies, followed by the multitude of dilatory lawsuits just to add a runway, no group of private investors in their right minds would sink a ton of capital into build... |
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Reply 7, posted (9 years 5 months 1 week 22 hours ago) and read 1257 times: |
I believe DCA is the only federaly owned airport. MSP is a good example of an airport owned by the State of Minnesota. Then you have your large airports owned by an authority or a board. Alot of your midsize airports are owned by the city or municipality. |
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User currently offlineZippyjet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 5117 posts, RR: 13 |
Reply 8, posted (9 years 5 months 1 week 21 hours ago) and read 1254 times: |
BWI Is owned and operated by the State of Maryland. Which means, many things operate by the business or lack of model of big government. Meaning many times Sears does not know what Roebuck is doing. There are pros and cons to both sides of this issue. However, I do believe that at times there must be a more efficient w... |
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User currently offlineCloudy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: |
Reply 9, posted (9 years 5 months 1 week 20 hours ago) and read 1250 times: |
This is a more complicated question than it sounds because airports are a natural monopoly. There is competition between airports in a few places, but most of the time if you want to fly to a certain market you have to use a certain airport. In natural monopolies, a private entity can be almost as bad as a government a... |
What airports need is congestion pricing. It ought to cost a lot more to land at Ohare in the middle of the day than at Denver International in the middle of the night. Where there is more demand and less supply, prices ought to go up. We need a system that assures this. But that is not always the case with our warped ... |
Reply 10, posted (9 years 5 months 1 week 20 hours ago) and read 1239 times: |
SEA is controlled by the Port of Seattle which is a private contractor or company. The Port of Seattle has their own police department and has no affiliation with the Seattle Police department, King County Police and Washington State Patrol. The Port of Seattle controls the airport and seaport. BFI is not a part of the... |
PHX is controlled by the city of Phoenix. The city of Phoenix uses the Phoenix Police Department to patrol the airport. |
The some airports in the U.S. are controlled privately but also some are controlled by their respective city, county or state. Ive never heard of an airport here in the U.S. controlled by the federal government. This excludes the F.A.A. and the TSA doesnt control squat except for their silly lil 'human scanner' x-ray m... |
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Reply 11, posted (9 years 5 months 1 week 12 hours ago) and read 1205 times: |
You raise a valid point in that in smaller markets that support only a single airport, a privately run airport might cause problems. |
In reading about the Port of Seattle http://www.portseattle.org/about/, I get a sense it is hybrid between private and government control, or as they put it, a municipal corporation. That is an interesting concept. Although, if they have their own police force, I would tilt the scales towards the Port of Seattle being ... |
Then again, considering Cloudy's observations, the Seattle model may be the best possible option in some markets. |
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Reply 12, posted (9 years 5 months 1 week 11 hours ago) and read 1196 times: |
This goes against my anti-big-government sentiments, but here goes. Airports are part of the aviation infrastructure that enables aircraft to operate safely, same as the interstate freeways in the US are part of an infrastructure that enables cars to be operated safely. Most public infrastructures are not money-makers ... |
Reply 13, posted (9 years 5 months 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 1176 times: |
When the Port of Seattle police arrest someone, they dont take the arrestee to jail. They hold them and then call the Washington State Patrol to file a complaint and turn over the arrestee to WSP to take to the King County Jail in Seattle. The Port of Seattle police only has authority on the airport property, but has i... |
The way SEA is controlled is hard to explain. As far as I know when I worked with AS, my class was told that the Port of Seattle is not government controlled, but privately controlled. Thats all I know about it and I also dont know any specifics. |
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User currently offlineF9Fan From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 693 posts, RR: 3 |
Reply 14, posted (9 years 5 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 1168 times: |
DEN is operated by the City and County of Denver. The director of the airport is appointed directly by the mayor and serves at his pleasure. The airlines lease space at the airport from the city, and the concessionaires also operate on leases granted by the city. The Denver Police Department provides security to the ai... |
That said, DEN is very unusual. In the United States, most airports are run by a quasi-governmental board such as the PANYNJ. |
User currently offlineSpacecadet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 3365 posts, RR: 13 |
Reply 15, posted (9 years 5 months 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 1179 times: |
Just to clear something up - the Port Authority of NY and NJ is not a "quasi-private entity". It is a government agency that was created to oversee the ports in and around NYC (airports, seaports, bus and train terminals). It also oversees the building of bridges and other public works. |
The whole issue of "authorities" has been a thorn of contention in NYC for many years (ever since they were first used and abused by Robert Moses) since there's little direct public say in what these agencies do, and their officials are not elected or answerable to the public. But they're not "semi-private" at all; the... |
EWR, JFK and LGA are owned by the government. The Port Authority is part of the government. |
[Edited 2004-07-18 09:23:56] |
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