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Another option: they shouldn't be government employees at all. It would be much better for them to work for the actual airports themselves and be certified by the government or a private testing organization instead.


LaGuardia, like many (most?) airports, is run by the government. This is a distinction without a difference, at least in this case.


Which government? State, Federal, City, or a Port Commission? There is in fact a significant distinction between the responsibilities and capabilities of each of these levels of government and you can't lump them all together. My home airport is operated by a port commission, which is government, but the port commission's task is to operate the ports.


>There is in fact a significant distinction between the responsibilities and capabilities of each of these levels of government and you can't lump them all together.

But all private businesses have the same responsibilities and capabilities and therefore can be lumped together as one entity? The asymmetry in how you're critiquing the way this is discussed ends up revealing your bias.


LaGuardia is not ran by a local government, not the Federal Government.


I genuinely have no idea what point you’re trying to make here. Do state governments not count as governments?


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I still have no idea what you're attempting to convey here, but the way you answered a genuine question with what reads like an attempted insult tells me that I shouldn't care about whatever you were trying to say.


Corporates that famously put people before profits. Bean counters will salivate how they can have one controller do 10 airports (with a bit of AI).


There’s a lot of ATC that isn’t specific to a single airport. And lots of airports are owned by a government anyway.




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