A Solution To Delays And Other Air Travel Frustrations
This year has set a lot of air travel records, and not the good kinds. Records like most delayed flights, lowest customer satisfaction, most crowded planes, and highest number of passengers.
The last one is expected to be broken every year until we start using jetpacks. Which means the first three records are also going to be broken for many years. Forbes magazines disagrees, however, provided we take a few steps towards fixing air travel. The most significant are:
- Installing a 20 billion dollar global positioning system (most likely paid for by the US government)
- Adding billions of dollars worth of new runways and airports (also paid for by the US government)
- Allowing foreign carriers to fly in the US.
- Developing lighter jets.
- Passing the Passenger’s Bill of Rights.
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Those are some great ideas. Our infrastructure is horrible right now. Allowing foreign carriers to fly in the US will bring more competition, better prices, and ease crowding on flights. One question though, what would the GPS be used for?
Currently, radar towers are used to track flights. This means that planes need to fly within a certain range of a radar tower in order for us to know where they are, causing them to often fly an indirect path. Using GPS would allow planes to fly the fastest and most direct routes, and open up more flight paths, allow for more planes to be in the air at once.
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