Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"The underlying problem is that air traffic control is a high-tech service. The customers are companies and individuals who pay good money to a service provider that is not a business, but a vast government bureaucracy. As a government agency, the FAA is simply not set up to determine risks, pursue the most cost-efficient investments, manage people to produce results, reward excellence, or punish incompetence like a normal business. In the same amount of time FAA has been working on NextGen, Verizon has upgraded its wireless network four times."

Source: Opening remarks by House Transportation Committee Chair Bill Shuster (R-PA) at a hearing on Air Traffic Control modernization.

FMI: http://transportation.house.gov