Today I'm starting a new series of posts entitled "The Land Questions." Eventually I'll accumulate them onto a website of their own, but before I do that, I think they could be improved. There's a tag at left if you'd like to look at just these posts.
I welcome your suggestions, rephrasings, additions, edits, etc, via the "comments" opportunity.
1. The skies are getting crowded with flights. Small planes and commercial jetliners take up large amounts of sky, and require equal attention from air traffic controllers. How should we allocate scarce airspace, particularly at peak travel hours?
A. Permit the corporate jets and individual flyers to have priority. After all, those who can afford their own jet or plane must be important people!
B. Require all planes, regardless of their size, to help pay for the air traffic control system, in proportion to the mileage they fly.
C. Whoever gets there first has priority.
D. Whoever has owned planes the longest has priority.
E. Charge large planes more, because they have more seats and can divide the cost among more passengers. A corporate jet would pay 5/200th of what a 200-seater would pay, even if it is a 737 carrying one executive and his immediate office staff, or one executive and his family .
F. Charge planes for the amount of airspace they use: so-called "heavy" jets with long swirling vortexes pay more than smaller planes which don't trail such large choppy areas.
G. Tell me your suggestion!
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