Laughable, my comment in one of the previous videos was deleted where I wrote that Boeing seems to be h.ll bend to prove that they are too big to fail. Now there's a whole video about it. Get this comment deleted too? 😂
@@jantjarks7946 To big to fail is really , give more money to the ultra rich . I would like to know what was your comment that got deleted. You most likely spoke truth.
When will the Trump administration end the farce of banning the new and much more economical Embraer planes from flying in the United States because of the demands of the pilots' unions? American taxpayers are paying for the communist inefficiency of the unions!!! America Free and Great Again!
What ever Trump says or does , He and the ultra rich will become richer. Code phase ,to big to fail. I would like to be wrong. WE'll see in 4 years. BTW it would be the same with Harris , thats just the way the "system works".
I agree. But there are grey areas if that company is intertwined with our national defense. It’s one of those sucky things. Kinda like Biden giving a full pardon to his son 😂
It’s a lesson we’ve learnt many times yet never seems to stick. Healthy competition requires competent regulation to level the playing field and create resilience. I work in food supply chains, and low resilience is now seen as a critical risk for national security in Europe. Less so in the US, in spite of their dependence on imports for food production. Beyond tariffs, I expect non-tariff trade barriers (such as product regulations) to factor into the upcoming trade wars as they can be much more targeted. This will have an even larger effect on industries like food, or aviation, where there are already industry-specialist agencies to police the products crossing a border. An example regulation I see being weaponised is the EU/UK Digital Product Passport that’s currently being implemented to provide tracking of sustainability and product safety of all goods sold in the EU and UK across their entire supply chain, even the parts beyond those jurisdictions. It disadvantages the US due to their patchwork federal and state level regulations and regulatory agencies, and relatively low levels of supply chain digitisation.
I disagree. When there are only two left in the world, the failure of one will make the other a monopoly-so very expensive. Please take a look at the prices Nvidia asks for its AI cards: $32.000/pcs. This is only because it has no real competition.
The concern I would have about privatizing ATC is that the motivations of private enterprise are not the same as government entities. Generally speaking a company is motivated to keep the highest difference between revenue and costs, while a government enterprise can be focused on delivering the service up to the full amount of the budget without having to hold anything back. The history of privatization in the US of government functions does not give me a lot of confidence.
Given enough airline involvement in this new ATC body, this should be less of a problem, as airlines are REALLY motivated to have a safe ATC organization... but it could be a tricky body to set up AND keep everyone happy.
You make a good point about government agencies being able to deliver a service without having to be concerned about making a profit. Unfortunately in my experience, government agencies seldom have good customer service and often cost much much more than is reasonable. I understand that this is a big generalization and it is not always the case. I do agree with you that the private sector can create problems when it looks at profit over responsibility. I think that Boeing is an example where the drive for profit and loss of a vision for their customers caused much of their problems. Hopefully a balance is found that benefits the airline industry and its customers while maintaining safety.
@@MentourNow Or the airlines will have to rewrite SOPs to make it functionally as if everywhere is uncontrolled airspace to make up for "profit is king" of private companies
@@jimscomp88Many government companies are actually more efficient than other companies. Concurrently, many private companies get to be inefficient because of natural monopolies. You just need to provide employees with the same incentives and have technocrats in power and a state company will tend to be better.
As a truck driver, I support making the FAA its own department so the DOT could focus more on ensuring that the trucking industry and passeger vehicle safety, BUT I don't support privatizing the sector that handles air traffic control
The FAA is already it’s own thing, yes it’s under the umbrella of the DOT but it’s in own agency. Has a separate building and everything. It’s not like NHTSA or FMCSA which shares HQ with DOT’s main office.
I appreciate that Peter took the time to provide an overview of Boeing's military programs as it's good to go outside of commercial aviation from time to time!
Super appreciate the professional reporting you've done here. No spreading of sensationalism, no negativity towards one side or the other, just facts with a little respectful opinion. Just how journalism is meant to be. ❤
I super duper appreciate how he insinuated in a statement that Trump will likely give his business friends deals when it comes to "green" technology. In other words corrupt.
@james-faulkner he also said lots of things that could be interpreted as far too positive towards Trump if you don't like him. So let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he is evaluating Trump's policies based on the merits of each policy and not grouping them all in one bucket.
Wow. That is a darn good price. When it comes to budgets (household) I don't factor in less than $10/month. It's nickel and dime. And when it's ATC that can be a matter of life and death. Hard to reconcile all this.
@@roderickcampbell2105 That's easily a cost you can factor into yearly maintenance/ownership fees, as though there weren't enough already. Perhaps it would be easier to roll a charge like that into the registration fees instead, maybe even levied on a scale according to the type or total cost of the aircraft, or how often its used in controlled airspace or whatever. A while back an was tossed around about having it as a pay per use basis, which could become very problematic. It would unfairly affect those who frequent controlled airspace because they have no other choice (sucks for you if you live in a congested area), the smaller class D airports that are struggling would get even less traffic, and pilots going cross country would likely opt out of flight following. It could very well contribute to more people getting out of aviation entirely, small class D airports closing, congestion in uncontrolled airports, and pilots getting themselves into bad situations on longer flights.
Is that reasonable though? Is it reasonable that commerial passengers should be subsidising rich people's hobbies which is what this effectively looks like?
It was indeed an important topic. Kudos for addressing it in a pragmatic, objective way. I wish issues of national concern were approached like this in the news… and especially on social media 😂
Watch for political opposition to find themselves on the "no-fly" list. There was never any legitimate justification for it, and it has proven resistant to correction.
Privatized ATC in the US means something completely different than what Eurocontrol has established because the intentions were different. Think about how many many countries are involved. I can see the reason to split off the FAA from the NTSB but don't breakout ATC. There's a very good reason why power and public transport in this country are not private companies but instead private owned municipally run entities. Any other way, and profit will become the mission statement.
We already saw the results in the U.S.A. when we did have private Air Traffic Control... Not good. General Aviation would be crushed. Over 90 percent of my flight time is at airports with no tower control in my private aircraft. The fuel tax that I pay on Aviation fuel helps the airlines regarding Air Traffic Control. The ramp fees I pay at some airports helps the FBO and the county airport. Let's not kill GA in the U.S.A.
I think a better example of a split ATC organisation is Australia. Over here we have CASA, The Civil Aviation Safety Authority, which holds the same role EASA has. But CASA only makes the rules, they don't control airspace. That is the role of Airservices Australia. They are who you file your flight plans with, and they control everything ATC related. Airservices Australia is actually really well run but the main difference is that Airservices Australia is wholly owned by the government. A private company just wouldn't work with our geographic reality.
@@kernowradio A big part of the current problem with the US is that we NEVER talk politics or religion except in our little echo chambers. It has led to horrific polarization and disunity. There was a time when we could have a civil exchange of ideas...
As an American ATC I've very against privatization. We put up with so much because we are promised a good pension, an early retirement age, and good benefits. All of that is at risk if the ATO is privatized. The argument that other countries like Canada does it fine, and not to downplay them, but every other country in the world works significantly less traffic than the US. It would also be very disheartening to see a higher bar set on GA flying given that pilot training in the US is already expensive. If users have to pay a fee for service we'd see much less things like VFR flight following which makes things less safe, we can't do anything about traffic we're not talking to. NATCA, the atc union, would become much less powerful, and overall I see the quality of life of controllers dropping further. The FAA is far from perfect, but they've been running the most complex, busiest airspace in the world for half a century, there would be compromises to safety, controllers, or both if they are privatized imo.
which is the primary reason for privatization ... there is already a working model in europe nd anyways ATC unions make the entire thing inefficient and also costly , so Yea to privatization .
One thing you glossed over is that the F18 Super Hornet has basically zero parts commonality with the old design, it kept the F18 designation to make procurement a non-bid process but it is effectively a completely new aircraft.
A "non-bid process" is illegal under U.S. Federal Law. ALL U.S. procurements are "Full and Open Competition" per Federal Acquisition Regulations unless justified under Title 48 CFR § 6.302. BTW, the F-18E/F Integrated Logistics Support and Operations & Maintenance tail, where 80% of the program's Life Cycle Cost occurs, is identical to the previous F-18C/D.
@@Raiders33 "A 'non-bid process' is illegal under U.S. Federal Law" - And your point is... what? Are you seriously trying to suggest that government agencies have never done anything illegal? Or that they have never given contracts to a specific company, without taking bids? Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it isn't done. Similarly, just because someone isn't prosecuted doesn't mean they haven't committed a crime.
As a GA pilot and aircraft owner, During Obama era the talk of the airlines funding the air traffic system, but they wanted the GA pilots to also pay into the system. At one point they talked about $100 each time we used the system. This was not acceptable to us. Many would not use the system it the cost was that extensive.. There is a big question mark as to how any privatization would handle GA.
@@eisaatana96 you missed the word "comprehensive". But anyway. I think everybody is entitled to his opinion. And to me the video made sense. As simple as that.
I very much appreciate that you took up the question because your very logical, detailed, widely considered, and historically informed approach to each of your videos, is exactly the style of discourse needed when discussing the political situation here in the US. It shouldn’t feel like a rarity, but, unfortunately, it does.
There is currently a controversy in Poland with a pilot coming on national news to speak about allegedly terrible working conditions within LOT airlines. It could also be a good moment to talk about European regulations regarding aviation.
I’m a Polish Canadian going to Poland in April. You would think conditions would be better since they are more expensive than Swiss or Lufthansa. About $300 more round trip from Toronto to Waszawa and back. I know they recently renewed their fleet but so do other airlines.
@@the_bottomfragger I'm saying it is complete nonsense. The only way to beat fascism is to NEVER comply and NEVER work with them. The ONLY thing needing to change is removing FASCISTS from leading positions EVERYWHERE. The "why did it happen" is mute, we already know: propaganda. And the SAME PROPAGANDA wants people to LOOK AWAY TOWARDS OTHER THINGS (like "European regulations" in this case). This is about Trump/USA and fascism, nothing else.
Consumer protections. Gone. That stuff was not welcomed in the financial sector under his last term and all the new stuff that’s come out since will surely get wiped out vocally against all of it. But I have to hand it to you. I normally can’t sit through this kind of discussion, but you made it very easy to deal with. Most of American media could take a lesson. Bravo.
Most of general aviation in France happend at uncontrolled airfields hence the pretty low cost of it. Making a touch-and-go or a stop to a regulated airport is much more expensive.
Even at uncontrolled airports in the US, there may still be some amount of equipment that is owned and maintained by the FAA and their technicians. I would guess there would be a desire to recoup some of the expenses associated with their upkeep. The original plan, that was being proposed a while back, involved transferring a significant portion of the gov owned equipment to the public/private corporation. One overall company with the majority of employees being former gov employees that were direct transfers. Overseen (inspected) by current govt employees. I don’t remember all of the details exactly, it was several hundred pages. Personally, I’m envisioning a public/private entity that works something like the US postal system or Amtrak….raising prices constantly and still needing billions of federal funds each year to keep going.
@ Many uncontrolled small airports have both cameras and weather stations that can be viewed online. Also they have remote radios called RCOs that are connected to the regional FSS. I worked for a contractor turning up satellite links for the FAA all over Alaska for a few years. I also worked at the regional FSS , at ZAN and ZSE near Seattle. Then I worked for a communications company that had FAA RCOs and RCAGs at our sites that we maintained .
@ not many camera remote controlled airports in the USA, at least not the lower 48. The RCO’s are still out there, but a LOT of them have been turned off. Again, lower 48, AK has always been a different thing due to the nature of place. My understanding is that most of the functions that were once done through the RCO’s & FSS, is now being done via the internet.
I'm a retired Boeing Employee of 36 years I currently draw attention it's my opinion that no company is too big to fail including Boeing they have totally mismanaged every aspect of the company I'm the only one that's benefiting because stock prices are going up are the shareholders to me it's a scam I have personally seen some of the subcontracted parts that fall far below the quality standards I'm used to seeing all of the talk of layoffs and subcontracting Parts have artificially kept their stock alive I believe if you tie the announcements with layoffs subcontracting you'll see the stock market goes up...
Remember that Project 2025 was written by a think tank that writes one of these wish lists every 4 years since 1976. While it provides insights into what the academic side of the party and their donors wants, they’re little more than a Christmas wishlist. Political platforms don’t mean much in the US political world. The Democratic platform has been promising affordable health care for generations and still hasn’t delivered that.
That’s good to know the age of Project 2025 think tank, I appreciate the information. I do feel the bigger difference is that the republican party cleared the House, Senate, and Presidency so they’re going to have a lot of less objections when it comes to passing wishlist items. Whereas democrats only secured a trifecta majority once in the last twenty years, which was for two years under Obama and that was a fairly sketchy/thin majority.
@@TheTubaEmporer He also said "grab them by the pussy" and a LOT of other things. Trump and the christian fundamentalists are FASCISTS. Only a fascist would try to deflect that.
One of the problems with Boeing is that they have spread themselves too thin in try to enter and manage, many markets, as in the past there was MD, Norton, Lockheed, General Dynamics, etc, and most of those have been absorbed in one form or another by Boeing, or have disappear from the market. On the ATC issue, training new controllers, though a solution, it's not something that can be fixed in the very near future, as it takes money, time, and the right candidates, with a lot of the current controllers, are from the 1980 famous Reagan firings, which means many possible retirements coming up. A faster solution to ATC and traffic saturation is to reduce flights in overly congested areas. I work for a major US airline, and know that most airlines have too many flights from a point A, to a point B, and that all those flights are not at capacity. So, if you have 7 flights from the same departure and destination points with 15-20% empty seats, reducing that frequency to 4, or 5, could keep the airplane full, and fewer flight to handle by ATC. The more "relaxed" scheduling would also help the new hires to get in the groove, learn and adapt. Sounds like a win-win, but I'm not either an airline CEO, or a bean counter. Going with private ATC in the US, will be a hard sell, though very doable.
I’m ok with “spicy” until it devolves into a dichotomous echo chamber of left vs right, red vs blue, orange vs sleepy, etc…. If people could just stick to facts and personal experience without all the emotionally charged rhetoric, that would be great.
As a former GA pilot, private aviation "bug smashers frequently use no FAA services at all unless they are on an instrument flight plan. GA is the training ground for your friendly commercial airline pilot. GA frequently volunteers emergency services at no cost. GA, especially Experimental aviation is a breeding ground for our next generation of engineers. The training is rigorous and costly. GA also supports small airports all across the country that relieve traffic congestion at major airports. It allows business aviation destinations to be closer than being funneled to major air traffic hubs.
Something worth remembering is Trump can't do most of these things on his own, he needs congress. And while the Republicans do have the majority there as well, it's a fairly slim majority. It only takes a few Republican senators or a handful of representatives to keep a bill from passing and those people will be up for re-election sooner. It's a near certainty that these things as well as tariffs will be negotiated out and either never happen or be significantly different than the proposals we're seeing now.
The problem is that the ones that arent loyel enough to not do what he says may have been changed Are the people there gonna tell him to not nuke a hurricane or are they yes men?
6:16 not sure if this was poor word choice or a subtle jab, but Presidents do not rule, they serve (terms). It's a subtle but important distinction with most democracies, but especially the USA. We The People rule the USA, and our government serves us by upholding the Constution. Not trying to start anything - I just think it's important to remember despite their power, Presidents are not kings.
Presidents in the USA actually enjoy considerably more power than the executive branch in most other democracies. Unfortunately the word choice has merit :(
If that was true, the politicians are mostly bought true campaign donations, and then they continue to be bought for next donations etc. Trump have always been a conman and now he will do everything to continue making money and to make sure he control everything he puts loyalists and family members into important positions. Just like Putin. The world richest man is Putin,
Sorry but the US system is problematic precisely because the office has far more power - particularly over appointments in the judiciary and key government agencies - than any other democracy. Whenever a new President gets in virtually the entire government changes and all based on the whims of one person. And if one gets to appoints say 3-4 Supreme Court judges who are loyal to the, - we’ll that’s one branch of government taken care of
I really think we need to elect an adorable fat little penguin as the next next President of Earth. Would it fix anything? No, probably not. Would it make anything worse? No, probably not. There would just be an adorable fat little penguin, and we as a species would, even if for just a moment, have to stop and acknowledge that.
"You know, FDR, 16 years - almost 16 years - he was four terms. I don't know, are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?" Trump asked the NRA crowd. "I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote,"-Trump
Think you’re also forgetting that trump forced Boeing to renegotiate the Air Force One contracts. Now fixed price and a great source of financial pain for Boeing
That was Boeings own fault. They didn't work out all the kinks in the plan now it came back and bit them. Besides there are other cost plus contracts that there milking
When Canada privatized ATC the controllers did very well financially. It was a monopoly that could charge what it wanted. The same for airports in Canada, which have some of the highest costs in the world. Privatized monopolies. It is very expensive to fly in Canada with taxes and fees often exceeding the ticket cost.
@taxirob2248 I was speaking of what happens when aviation assets are privatized. Health care in Canada is in a terrible state. Let's get back to an aviation discussion.
@@larrydugan1441 healthcare as an employee benefit is an input cost for their employers, so it is very relevant when we are talking about privatization as current government employee plans are better than most private ones. And what's wrong with healthcare in Canada exactly? Got some anecdotal long wait time stories for us? I can find just as many about Americans with private insurance, including people I know personally.
When you have objectives that you see as essential to achieve then you will try to motivate the other players by whatever means you have available to you. Tariffs as a motivational tool can easily be rescinded when the objective is achieved.
Even though EuroControl has worked well for decades and could be an effective basis for similar ATC in USA, I seriously doubt it will happen, for the very simple reason that americans are very distrustful of anything that's not "american". Many americans would see it a too socialist, even without any direct governmental involvement. I can see another potential problem if the EuroControl model were exported to USA, and quite simply that is american greed: they would turn it into a for-profit industry for the primary benefit of its investors and shareholders, and we all know how well that ethos works for healthcare, education, prisons, etc...
Many would argue private education outpaces public. Healthcare in the US is still the envy of the world, despite all its shortcomings, which is why those rich sheiks all come to the US for healthcare when it matters. Prisons I don't know enough about to say one way or the other.
When Boeing cannot even get their software to read two separate angle of attack sensors for redundancy, with no limits on the trim allowed.... they are right down there with the DMV service centers. Every automobile with throttle by wire has such redundancy built into it. Easy to do. Boeing needs a major shake-up if it hasn't happened already.
He'll call someone at Boeing, announce that they had an excellent conversation, & declare that they will be fixing all their bad airplanes so all the problems are solved then he'll go play a round of golf or his specialty, butt-tennis.
He's probably gonna tariff Embraer to help Boeing. Funnily enough the US used tariffs to industrialize, then created an international organization to sanction anyone who used tariffs to protect their own industries, and now that they aren't competitive they'll use them again.
@@mohamadtayara3380yeah and that’s a huge problem because it is way more easier to acquire Airbus. And if that one Chinese aerospace company gains more leverage and trust, it may also come around to steal some Boeing clients.
Tariffs like the Marshal Plan? Where we agreed to crippling tariffs on US good so that Europe could recover? Much of the EU (and Japan) still imposes huge tariffs on US goods to protect their own industries. Free trade is a great thing provided it really is free trade.
I highly doubt that. I don’t think Embraer is even a major competitor to Boeing especially as the Scope Clause all but bans the new E-jets in the US. And even if it was, Boeing is a major exporter so I’d say it has more to lose than to win if there is an all out tariff war or airliners (I guarantee that if the US would put tariffs of foreign made airliners there would be retaliatory tariffs affecting Boeing.
Very concerned about promised deregulation (especially safety/maintenance) and targeting/cost-cutting agencies like the NTSB and FAA. Some things you really shouldn’t deregulate as regs often exist for a good reason. I’d like to say such fear is unfounded, but it’s most definitely not.
@@andrasbiro3007 Even Elon said they might not get it right the first time. Imagine at what cost that will come. Think Trumps voters will hold him accountable when we see hyper inflation and our education become non existent?
Cutting wasteful spending is not the same as deregulating. Deregulation allows businesses to thrive, which benefits everyone. Cutting wasteful spending does not necessarily mean a decrease in safety. The government is currently unsafe in many aspects and is bloated. So having more money and more employees hasn't done anything great for safety either.
Those who regulate safety must have no financial incentives. Privatized regulation just wont stay free of that. In fact, Boeing aircraft have become so dangerous that federal QC is needed in their factories. Boeing hasnt been able to resist their worst urges toward greed, even when it ran the risk of ruining their own industry.
He didn't know how to navigate the checks and balances around him then. He's got it all worked out now. Even then, his last presidency was a total disaster as soon as there was any hint of a crisis.
Trump tryed to nuke a hurrican... Thankfully his cabinet wasnt as crazy Trump has also made comments that if they vote for him this one time they wont have to vote again....
A very good listen, thanks Mentor team. I thought it would be good and glad I waited until I had the proper time to listen and learn fully rather than just background YT play.
I disagree. Airports in Canada have been privatized in the same way for several decades. They still manage to operate just as badly as their publicly owned and operated counterparts in the US.
@@JC-PSC the entire Canadian business environment is different. We don't have NHS down here in the US, so employees often have to choose between decent wages OR good benefits. If the ATC union is broken, they're screwed.
Its nice to see a video that acknowledges how unfairly the President was criticised during his first term - as the only World Leader to immediately ground the Max following the 2 crashes he forced the rest of the world to follow suit, something many forget about.
DT is a negotiator, it won’t be surprising if he is throwing around these big threats now to eventually settle on something more realistic later on. You don’t go into a negotiation and immediately offer your lowest acceptable outcome, you go in hard and strong and compromise from there. Will be interesting to see how it all plays out
Firstly, as has been debunked numerous times and repeatedly stated by Trump, The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 mandate has nothing to do with the Trump administration. During the pre-COVID 2016 administration, the aviation industry experienced a huge boom period. The Trump administration's deregulations contributed to this growth, as did record-high passenger numbers between 2018 and 2019. The massive tax cuts from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 also helped significantly. We can look forward to more positive actions like this, I would say.
It might be independent from Trump. But half of his gov participated on the redaction of the document. So yes, project 2025 is the guideline for trup sgov, even if Trump says the opposite. Also, do you still Trust what Trump says? Why?!
GA is already getting priced out for people even here in the US. Everything is so expensive and everyone is aging out and no one new is coming in, due to the high barrier of entry for flying in general, and the cost of aircraft being so high. :( I'd really hate to see the GA scene die even faster than it already is.
The free market requires failure. When companies feel safe and aren't innovative, then they need to free up room in the marketplace for someone else to come in.
And this is why free market anarchists have no place in any ATC functions, or any other public safety functions, we the people should not tolerate free market "failures" aka incompetence to gamble with our lives on some airy fairy notion of it "freeing up space" for mere competition.
"We solved the ATC shortage by worsening the pilot shortage!" xD God, I hope they handle it sensibly. I was fighter mx in the USAF and it's extremely rough, but it doesn't come close to the stress and pressure those poor tower flowers are under.
It reminds me a conversation with a former Air Force JTAC, when I asked if he has a civilian ATC license, he said "yes, but f**k that life". Like it's way harder than was directing A10s in Afghanistan.
It is funny how a lot of people in the comment section are against privatization even though the EU has done it and y'all don't see an issue with that. Y'all like to say the US should be more like the EU and when it does y'all are complaining? Privatization is not always a bad thing if done properly. Having the people have more control over regulation on how things are run is better rather than the government having all of the control.
If you believe in Trump to do it properly then you better believe in God! In France ATC is set up by state (DGAC) and while it is effectively founded by airlines I see it more like a tax. That's not really what I would call private sector since there are no competition between different ATC's. Highways and train have been given to private sector though and I strongly believe it has been detrimental to consumers.
@ First you moving the post. Y’all love to say US should be EU and now complaining that they do the same thing in Europe. Second, American is a republic not a democracy. It’s for the balance of people and the government. Third, just because you democracy doesn’t mean not mean there can’t be government big and overreach of government powers. China has democratic elections, but the government almost controls everything. Same with Russia and Europe. And one closer to home Canada has democratic elections but the Canada is overbearing on there people. Also, many people are irrational when it comes to voting and they easily sway by a charismatic leader or political idea that sounds good, but doesn’t actually stand up the problem it tries to solve.
You have to remember that EU is not a country. That means that private companies that work for EU as a whole can be checked by 27 different governments at any moment and they can publicly talk about it in the EU parliament. If the private company tries to "play games" and becomes corrupted in consultation with, let's say, 2 different countries there are still 25 governments to check what's going on. And that's only the countries that are in the Union. In the USA we are talking about one government and one private company, things can easily get out of hand with that combination. Life can become much harder for ATC controllers, general aviation pilots etc just for the sake of one company's profit.
Price shopping is an unstoppable pandemic. We want high wages and cheap goods. When domestic companies find that making goods elsewhere and shipping them back increases their profits there isn’t much reason to stay. Tariffs are the only way to stem the tide of imported goods and force companies to bring factories back to the USA. The only building I see around me for the last 15 and more years is warehouses. It’s difficult to drive an economy forwards when all your money is going somewhere else.
Just remember... the company making the profits is still American. US companies usually have a tax deals in their host nations. So they pay no tax or lower tax rate than native companies. All your money is not going anywhere but to US companies. We (natives) certainly do not see it. All we natives get, is job experience making goods for American consumers. Often we cannot translate that work experience to home made products due to the massive among of US patents. Only the chinese have managed to push their native technology far enough that they can compete.
The US is $35 TRILLION in debt. Our debt payments alone are more than most countries' annual budgets. With everyone yelling for more funding and subsidies for their pet projects, it isn't likely that experimental fuels for airlines are going to get much attention.
Who do we actually owe the debt to? Do we not owe it to the Federal Reserve Bank? Was that the same bank that produced money from nothing and then turned around and charged us interest on it? Is not the federal reserve bank tied directly to the bank of England? In fact, it's not every single bank of every country tied into our federal reserve bank? I think that if you ask the majority of Americans about the federal reserve bank, they'll likely think it is one of the branches of the government. They don't teach it in high school anymore. There is a movement a foot in the world today outside the United States to combat the American Dollar, and to unseat it as the popular world currency.
Does that mean that the department of education has to be defunded? No becose thats ****** The us has dept Other countrys have lived with a higher gdp to dept ratio Starting to defunt stuff wont end well
On Trump's Tariff plans, one thing to keep in mind is that, while he likely would implement them if it came to it, he is intending to not have to. Essentially he's using them as a threat to force these countries to the negotiating table, as the United States has ended up in some less-than-favorable deals regarding both trade and foreign policy that he wants renegotiated, and he'd like to see an end, or at least adjustments to some of these countries' policies that directly affect the United States negatively. If he did have to implement the tariffs, the secondary goal would be to break free of the reliance on trade partners for certain goods, and the idea is that the domestically made goods would be more economically viable with the tariffs in place, then prices would drop further as competition increases to produce them. More money being kept within the United States and being spent on domestic goods would hopefully mean greater independence, more jobs, and hopefully higher wages to offset those costs. Additionally, the affected trade partners would have to be aware that the longer they wait to give in, the more independent these industries would become and the less likely they might be to return to their products under a different regime, adding a ticking clock to the incentive to negotiate. I've largely only seen the worst possible outcome reported by our news media in the United States, and likely from much of the foreign coverage as well, and just wanted to add that there is a method to the madness. Whether that will work? I have no idea, I'm not an economist, I'm just watching all this play out too, but I'd prefer to be optimitsic, while still preparing for the worst, and extra knowledge on the situation doesn't hurt.
we're already operating under the NAFTA replacement that HE negotiated, so what was the point of threatening Mexico and Canada? P.S. you should read what the president of Mexico said about their interaction, it's completely different from what Trump tweeted out.
Those are a lot of assumptions. First, companies would need to invest heavily in setting up factories and purchasing equipment to produce these goods domestically, which requires significant upfront costs. To recover these expenses, they would likely increase prices, passing the burden onto consumers. This would especially impact families who are already struggling financially, as they would face even higher prices in the short term. The idea that other companies would then enter the market, lowering prices through competition, is uncertain. Even if this happens, both companies would still initially sell goods at higher prices compared to imported alternatives. Expecting families to endure these higher costs now in the hope that prices will eventually decrease may not be realistic, as most people are focused on immediate affordability rather than long-term projections. Additionally, higher wages would benefit employees of these companies, but the rest of the population, who do not work there, would still face increased costs without the advantage of higher income. While the strategy aims to create greater economic independence and job growth, the immediate impact would likely be financial strain for many households. It’s uncertain whether people would be willing to bear that burden long enough for the supposed benefits to materialize.
@@Cursory3I am in the US and I only buy products from China. I also run a LLC with the goal of hiring minimum people in the US as possible and outsourcing as much as it can. If Trump’s gonna do that, I am going to find some channel to import stuff directly from China (via Mexico or something) and sell them at the American price.
The interactions of massive economies of large businesses, countries, and internationally are just so, So, SO, complex, I think it's beyond anyone's full comprehension. Any changes need to be gradual: twiddle something somewhere, then wait a while to see what unexpected consequences arise. Then tweak something else and watch a while more. Any massive, sudden, policy changes are bound to have wide-ranging impacts, many of which are totally unanticipated. Even being generous and allowing that some behaviors might be based on best intentions (which I doubt they are, sorry, just had to slip that in), massive actions are bound to create massive chaos. I'm a cynic; I question the motives of all politicians, business CEOs, governments, both public and private.
Tween the threats of tariffs, and the privatizing of ATC has me seriously thinking of selling my General Aviation assets and giving up flying along with my flying goals. If aviation gets as expensive here as it is elsewhere, I'm worried that I won't be able to afford to fly anymore, and I also won't be able to get as much for the share in my flying club, headsets, etc. that I'll no longer need. Then fewer people will also be able to sustain participation meaning the market will be flooded with supplies that will see a value drop if I wait too long. A lose-lose as it were. I finally crossed 1,250 hours hours in my logbook too. So close, yet so far. But yeah. Whole thing is crushing my drive to figure a way through it out.
Let's keep the comment section as Swedish as possible: disagree respectfully and be too polite to fight each other, then rant in any way you please to your loved ones behind the scenes☝️😌😂🇸🇪 I actually think this would solve some of the issues the rest of the world has today - we have them too, but the risk of social ostracizing does keep the rudeness and drama to a minimum 😂
You mean like Sweden did when they talked to fascists, and now 20% of the Swedish population is openly supporting Jimmy the nazi? "Jimmy Åkesson, SHA LALA LALA..." and "media is not welcome to our post election party". There is ONLY ONE SIDE trying to say things like you do, EXACTLY like MAGA fascists in USA. Are you voting for the swedish fascist party "sverige demokraterna"?!? The ONLY WAY to beat nazis is to be OPEN AND AGAINST IT AND NEVER LET THEM IN. EVER!
It doesn't really matter what changes happen, all changes will cause a certain amount of disruption before everything settles. If the change is for the better, there will still be those who see the rough patches and remain opposed. It's like cleaning a house - it starts to look more messy before you finish, but then everything is great except for the bottom drawer in the kitchen.
Simple, he will build the best planes ever, nobody will have ever seen such planes, they will be the planest planes ever made in history. And Mexico will pay for them.
"Too big to fail" is never a statement of fact, it's is always a euphemism for "I don't want my friends to lose their gravy train." Every single bailout that was chalked-up to "too big to fail" have ALWAYS resulted in the CEO getting a massive payout.
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Laughable, my comment in one of the previous videos was deleted where I wrote that Boeing seems to be h.ll bend to prove that they are too big to fail. Now there's a whole video about it.
Get this comment deleted too?
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@@jantjarks7946 To big to fail is really , give more money to the ultra rich . I would like to know what was your comment that got deleted. You most likely spoke truth.
When will the Trump administration end the farce of banning the new and much more economical Embraer planes from flying in the United States because of the demands of the pilots' unions? American taxpayers are paying for the communist inefficiency of the unions!!! America Free and Great Again!
What ever Trump says or does , He and the ultra rich will become richer. Code phase ,to big to fail. I would like to be wrong. WE'll see in 4 years. BTW it would be the same with Harris , thats just the way the "system works".
No company should become too big to fail. If we have become so dependent on a single company, healthy innovative competition ceases.
I agree. But there are grey areas if that company is intertwined with our national defense. It’s one of those sucky things. Kinda like Biden giving a full pardon to his son 😂
Too big to fail, sounds like monopoly to me
It’s a lesson we’ve learnt many times yet never seems to stick. Healthy competition requires competent regulation to level the playing field and create resilience. I work in food supply chains, and low resilience is now seen as a critical risk for national security in Europe. Less so in the US, in spite of their dependence on imports for food production.
Beyond tariffs, I expect non-tariff trade barriers (such as product regulations) to factor into the upcoming trade wars as they can be much more targeted. This will have an even larger effect on industries like food, or aviation, where there are already industry-specialist agencies to police the products crossing a border. An example regulation I see being weaponised is the EU/UK Digital Product Passport that’s currently being implemented to provide tracking of sustainability and product safety of all goods sold in the EU and UK across their entire supply chain, even the parts beyond those jurisdictions. It disadvantages the US due to their patchwork federal and state level regulations and regulatory agencies, and relatively low levels of supply chain digitisation.
@@scriptles If Boeing fails, Airbus becomes a monopoly. It is not what you meant, isn't it?
I disagree. When there are only two left in the world, the failure of one will make the other a monopoly-so very expensive. Please take a look at the prices Nvidia asks for its AI cards: $32.000/pcs. This is only because it has no real competition.
I appreciate the neutral tone you used covering this. It's like old style objective reporting.
That tone of voice is normal in Scandinavian countries like Sweden. I'm British but I was over in Norway recently and noticed it while I was there.
@@ajs41I think he meant the political tone, not the voice
Remember when the news was “just the facts ma’am”?
Well, it was almost neutral until he got to climate change. And then he went full progressive.
There is no such thing as neutrality in reporting, there are always biases, no matter what. It's naive to think otherwise
The concern I would have about privatizing ATC is that the motivations of private enterprise are not the same as government entities. Generally speaking a company is motivated to keep the highest difference between revenue and costs, while a government enterprise can be focused on delivering the service up to the full amount of the budget without having to hold anything back. The history of privatization in the US of government functions does not give me a lot of confidence.
Given enough airline involvement in this new ATC body, this should be less of a problem, as airlines are REALLY motivated to have a safe ATC organization... but it could be a tricky body to set up AND keep everyone happy.
You make a good point about government agencies being able to deliver a service without having to be concerned about making a profit. Unfortunately in my experience, government agencies seldom have good customer service and often cost much much more than is reasonable. I understand that this is a big generalization and it is not always the case. I do agree with you that the private sector can create problems when it looks at profit over responsibility. I think that Boeing is an example where the drive for profit and loss of a vision for their customers caused much of their problems. Hopefully a balance is found that benefits the airline industry and its customers while maintaining safety.
@@jimscomp88 most government work goes unheard, unseen and unnoticed. It's only when there are issues that you hear about it in the news.
@@MentourNow Or the airlines will have to rewrite SOPs to make it functionally as if everywhere is uncontrolled airspace to make up for "profit is king" of private companies
@@jimscomp88Many government companies are actually more efficient than other companies. Concurrently, many private companies get to be inefficient because of natural monopolies. You just need to provide employees with the same incentives and have technocrats in power and a state company will tend to be better.
As a truck driver, I support making the FAA its own department so the DOT could focus more on ensuring that the trucking industry and passeger vehicle safety, BUT I don't support privatizing the sector that handles air traffic control
Why not?
@@Hummerbird99 Deciding what an appropriate number of aviation incidents per year is with a cost/benefit analysis sounds pretty messed up to me.
I don’t think ANY government entity should be in a union! Tax payers pay their wages, not private companies
@@ronjones1077 you dont seem to understand what unions are
The FAA is already it’s own thing, yes it’s under the umbrella of the DOT but it’s in own agency. Has a separate building and everything. It’s not like NHTSA or FMCSA which shares HQ with DOT’s main office.
I appreciate that Peter took the time to provide an overview of Boeing's military programs as it's good to go outside of commercial aviation from time to time!
Super appreciate the professional reporting you've done here. No spreading of sensationalism, no negativity towards one side or the other, just facts with a little respectful opinion. Just how journalism is meant to be. ❤
I super duper appreciate how he insinuated in a statement that Trump will likely give his business friends deals when it comes to "green" technology. In other words corrupt.
@james-faulkner he also said lots of things that could be interpreted as far too positive towards Trump if you don't like him. So let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he is evaluating Trump's policies based on the merits of each policy and not grouping them all in one bucket.
I know why he did it, but Trump is a monster, so honestly, negativity towards him and his ilk is more than warranted.
As a small aircraft owner in Canada I pay $75/year for all the ATC I can eat. That's not unreasonable.
Wow. That is a darn good price. When it comes to budgets (household) I don't factor in less than $10/month. It's nickel and dime. And when it's ATC that can be a matter of life and death. Hard to reconcile all this.
@@roderickcampbell2105 That's easily a cost you can factor into yearly maintenance/ownership fees, as though there weren't enough already. Perhaps it would be easier to roll a charge like that into the registration fees instead, maybe even levied on a scale according to the type or total cost of the aircraft, or how often its used in controlled airspace or whatever. A while back an was tossed around about having it as a pay per use basis, which could become very problematic. It would unfairly affect those who frequent controlled airspace because they have no other choice (sucks for you if you live in a congested area), the smaller class D airports that are struggling would get even less traffic, and pilots going cross country would likely opt out of flight following. It could very well contribute to more people getting out of aviation entirely, small class D airports closing, congestion in uncontrolled airports, and pilots getting themselves into bad situations on longer flights.
Is that reasonable though? Is it reasonable that commerial passengers should be subsidising rich people's hobbies which is what this effectively looks like?
@@enda1ie Speaking as a "rich person" I think it is very reasonable.
Ok, drop my fuel tax and I'm ok with that!
It was indeed an important topic. Kudos for addressing it in a pragmatic, objective way. I wish issues of national concern were approached like this in the news… and especially on social media 😂
Me too... thank you!
Watch for political opposition to find themselves on the "no-fly" list. There was never any legitimate justification for it, and it has proven resistant to correction.
@@Akio-fy7ep Like Tulsi was
Privatized ATC in the US means something completely different than what Eurocontrol has established because the intentions were different. Think about how many many countries are involved. I can see the reason to split off the FAA from the NTSB but don't breakout ATC. There's a very good reason why power and public transport in this country are not private companies but instead private owned municipally run entities. Any other way, and profit will become the mission statement.
...but airlines are public transport companies and they are mostly privately owned in the US
We already saw the results in the U.S.A. when we did have private Air Traffic Control... Not good. General Aviation would be crushed. Over 90 percent of my flight time is at airports with no tower control in my private aircraft. The fuel tax that I pay on Aviation fuel helps the airlines regarding Air Traffic Control. The ramp fees I pay at some airports helps the FBO and the county airport. Let's not kill GA in the U.S.A.
I think a better example of a split ATC organisation is Australia.
Over here we have CASA, The Civil Aviation Safety Authority, which holds the same role EASA has. But CASA only makes the rules, they don't control airspace. That is the role of Airservices Australia. They are who you file your flight plans with, and they control everything ATC related. Airservices Australia is actually really well run but the main difference is that Airservices Australia is wholly owned by the government. A private company just wouldn't work with our geographic reality.
AirservicesAustralia also runs radio sites.
Some say, never talk Politics or Religion.
You handled it well 👍
@@kernowradio A big part of the current problem with the US is that we NEVER talk politics or religion except in our little echo chambers. It has led to horrific polarization and disunity. There was a time when we could have a civil exchange of ideas...
As an American ATC I've very against privatization. We put up with so much because we are promised a good pension, an early retirement age, and good benefits. All of that is at risk if the ATO is privatized. The argument that other countries like Canada does it fine, and not to downplay them, but every other country in the world works significantly less traffic than the US. It would also be very disheartening to see a higher bar set on GA flying given that pilot training in the US is already expensive. If users have to pay a fee for service we'd see much less things like VFR flight following which makes things less safe, we can't do anything about traffic we're not talking to. NATCA, the atc union, would become much less powerful, and overall I see the quality of life of controllers dropping further. The FAA is far from perfect, but they've been running the most complex, busiest airspace in the world for half a century, there would be compromises to safety, controllers, or both if they are privatized imo.
which is the primary reason for privatization ... there is already a working model in europe nd anyways ATC unions make the entire thing inefficient and also costly , so Yea to privatization .
The only thing will happen is to make flying much less safe ,just like everything else that he touches,it's scary,thanks for your insights Peter!!
@@Krasniye every other country in the world also has healthcare and retirement benefits, which would go away if it's privatized in the us.
if it is privatized, then the union is exempt from Taft-Hartley provisions against government employee strikes. Jussayin.
@@prateekmahapatra1789 I doubt that eurocontrol could be called privatised
One thing you glossed over is that the F18 Super Hornet has basically zero parts commonality with the old design, it kept the F18 designation to make procurement a non-bid process but it is effectively a completely new aircraft.
Maybe they are trying to avoid recertification? Lol.
@@Saml01to get it pass Congress. Defense spending was heavily cut in the 90s after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
I thought FA-18 was being manufactured by Lockheed too under license.
A "non-bid process" is illegal under U.S. Federal Law. ALL U.S. procurements are "Full and Open Competition" per Federal Acquisition Regulations unless justified under Title 48 CFR § 6.302. BTW, the F-18E/F Integrated Logistics Support and Operations & Maintenance tail, where 80% of the program's Life Cycle Cost occurs, is identical to the previous F-18C/D.
@@Raiders33 "A 'non-bid process' is illegal under U.S. Federal Law" - And your point is... what? Are you seriously trying to suggest that government agencies have never done anything illegal? Or that they have never given contracts to a specific company, without taking bids? Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it isn't done. Similarly, just because someone isn't prosecuted doesn't mean they haven't committed a crime.
As a GA pilot and aircraft owner, During Obama era the talk of the airlines funding the air traffic system, but they wanted the GA pilots to also pay into the system. At one point they talked about $100 each time we used the system. This was not acceptable to us. Many would not use the system it the cost was that extensive.. There is a big question mark as to how any privatization would handle GA.
Tip my hat off for this objective and very educational way to navigate this waters. Thank you so much for all the info
Your comprehensive analysis never seize to amaze me how accurate they are and on the same time easy to an "ousider" to understand!!!
As an American, I am offended how little he knows about the whole story.
How can you possibly know how accurate it is if you are by your own admission an "outsider". Completely illogical comment.
@@eisaatana96 you missed the word "comprehensive". But anyway. I think everybody is entitled to his opinion. And to me the video made sense. As simple as that.
That "Will Fix It" slogan has two very differing effects in the UK.
One features Bob the Builder, the other Jimmy Saville.
Trump is just America's Jimmy Saville.
@@gerwin030 This is why he avoids presentation that touch on the political. Your ignorance shines for everyone to see.
@@DaD8801 Ask yourself who owns the aircraft trump uses! Don't forget the orange felon's criminal record!
@@gerwin030 indeed
@@DaD8801ok simp.
I very much appreciate that you took up the question because your very logical, detailed, widely considered, and historically informed approach to each of your videos, is exactly the style of discourse needed when discussing the political situation here in the US. It shouldn’t feel like a rarity, but, unfortunately, it does.
I really appreciate your objectivity when covering this.
I can’t believe how much negativity you received from this video on Patreon. You’re amazing. Keep it up!
I can see why. Unfortunately that is the current state of US politics...
Trump ass kissers already on the job, sometimes it feels like these are people who only praise,praise and praise...but dont think logically at all
As a U.S. American, this topic is very relevant. But your analysis on this, from outside the U.S. is all I've seen anywhere. Thank you!
Excellent analysis! Thank you for such well thought out and informative discussion. Much to watch out for in the months to come..
One thing you forgot is their satellite manufacturing business which provides a lot of key civilian and US military sats
There is currently a controversy in Poland with a pilot coming on national news to speak about allegedly terrible working conditions within LOT airlines. It could also be a good moment to talk about European regulations regarding aviation.
When Hitler came into power in Germany:
"It could also be a good moment to reflect on politics in countries NOT ran by fascism".
I’m a Polish Canadian going to Poland in April. You would think conditions would be better since they are more expensive than Swiss or Lufthansa. About $300 more round trip from Toronto to Waszawa and back. I know they recently renewed their fleet but so do other airlines.
@@marcusjohansson668What are you saying?
Comparing Trump with Hitler is pure retardium. Good job
@@the_bottomfragger I'm saying it is complete nonsense.
The only way to beat fascism is to NEVER comply and NEVER work with them.
The ONLY thing needing to change is removing FASCISTS from leading positions EVERYWHERE.
The "why did it happen" is mute, we already know: propaganda.
And the SAME PROPAGANDA wants people to LOOK AWAY TOWARDS OTHER THINGS (like "European regulations" in this case).
This is about Trump/USA and fascism, nothing else.
Consumer protections. Gone. That stuff was not welcomed in the financial sector under his last term and all the new stuff that’s come out since will surely get wiped out vocally against all of it. But I have to hand it to you. I normally can’t sit through this kind of discussion, but you made it very easy to deal with. Most of American media could take a lesson. Bravo.
Most of general aviation in France happend at uncontrolled airfields hence the pretty low cost of it. Making a touch-and-go or a stop to a regulated airport is much more expensive.
We have five private airstrips within a few miles of our home. There are also two public airports within five miles. Both of them are uncontrolled.
Even at uncontrolled airports in the US, there may still be some amount of equipment that is owned and maintained by the FAA and their technicians. I would guess there would be a desire to recoup some of the expenses associated with their upkeep. The original plan, that was being proposed a while back, involved transferring a significant portion of the gov owned equipment to the public/private corporation. One overall company with the majority of employees being former gov employees that were direct transfers. Overseen (inspected) by current govt employees. I don’t remember all of the details exactly, it was several hundred pages.
Personally, I’m envisioning a public/private entity that works something like the US postal system or Amtrak….raising prices constantly and still needing billions of federal funds each year to keep going.
@ Many uncontrolled small airports have both cameras and weather stations that can be viewed online. Also they have remote radios called RCOs that are connected to the regional FSS. I worked for a contractor turning up satellite links for the FAA all over Alaska for a few years. I also worked at the regional FSS , at ZAN and ZSE near Seattle. Then I worked for a communications company that had FAA RCOs and RCAGs at our sites that we maintained .
@ not many camera remote controlled airports in the USA, at least not the lower 48. The RCO’s are still out there, but a LOT of them have been turned off. Again, lower 48, AK has always been a different thing due to the nature of place. My understanding is that most of the functions that were once done through the RCO’s & FSS, is now being done via the internet.
@ The cameras are just for weather observations. They only update every 10-15 minutes on a slow data circuit.
Great work as always Petr. I look forward to a follow up next year
GM was too big to fail ,we bailed them out and they still build junk .
There is nothing that’s too big to fail. That’s how corruption starts to hurt the smaller guys. Competition will determine who the best is.
"Interacting without personal attacks"? Have you been on the internet??😂😂
Absolutely beautifully discussed and much appreciated!
No company is too big to fail. Look at Kodak, Honeywell, Borders, IBM etc etc - the list goes on and on. Too many to mention
Um. Most of the banks after 2008?
IBM?
Has Honeywell ever had a fall from grace like IBM?
As always, thank you Mentor Pilot. Well done!
I'm a retired Boeing Employee of 36 years I currently draw attention it's my opinion that no company is too big to fail including Boeing they have totally mismanaged every aspect of the company I'm the only one that's benefiting because stock prices are going up are the shareholders to me it's a scam I have personally seen some of the subcontracted parts that fall far below the quality standards I'm used to seeing all of the talk of layoffs and subcontracting Parts have artificially kept their stock alive I believe if you tie the announcements with layoffs subcontracting you'll see the stock market goes up...
Remember that Project 2025 was written by a think tank that writes one of these wish lists every 4 years since 1976. While it provides insights into what the academic side of the party and their donors wants, they’re little more than a Christmas wishlist. Political platforms don’t mean much in the US political world. The Democratic platform has been promising affordable health care for generations and still hasn’t delivered that.
Not to mention Trump has on multiple occasions said he does not support project 2025
That’s good to know the age of Project 2025 think tank, I appreciate the information. I do feel the bigger difference is that the republican party cleared the House, Senate, and Presidency so they’re going to have a lot of less objections when it comes to passing wishlist items. Whereas democrats only secured a trifecta majority once in the last twenty years, which was for two years under Obama and that was a fairly sketchy/thin majority.
HEY @MentourNow. you should MAKE A RESEARCH BEFORE YOU SPREAD MISS-INFORMATION!!!!!!!
@@TheTubaEmporer yes i agree @MentourNow should FIX THIS!!!!
@@TheTubaEmporer He also said "grab them by the pussy" and a LOT of other things.
Trump and the christian fundamentalists are FASCISTS. Only a fascist would try to deflect that.
Mentour for president
Seriously!
One of the problems with Boeing is that they have spread themselves too thin in try to enter and manage, many markets, as in the past there was MD, Norton, Lockheed, General Dynamics, etc, and most of those have been absorbed in one form or another by Boeing, or have disappear from the market.
On the ATC issue, training new controllers, though a solution, it's not something that can be fixed in the very near future, as it takes money, time, and the right candidates, with a lot of the current controllers, are from the 1980 famous Reagan firings, which means many possible retirements coming up. A faster solution to ATC and traffic saturation is to reduce flights in overly congested areas.
I work for a major US airline, and know that most airlines have too many flights from a point A, to a point B, and that all those flights are not at capacity. So, if you have 7 flights from the same departure and destination points with 15-20% empty seats, reducing that frequency to 4, or 5, could keep the airplane full, and fewer flight to handle by ATC.
The more "relaxed" scheduling would also help the new hires to get in the groove, learn and adapt. Sounds like a win-win, but I'm not either an airline CEO, or a bean counter. Going with private ATC in the US, will be a hard sell, though very doable.
This comment section is gonna get spicy
I've already received an email from Mentour Pilot criticising some of the comments and asking people to cool down.
why is everyone afraid of some spice
I’m ok with “spicy” until it devolves into a dichotomous echo chamber of left vs right, red vs blue, orange vs sleepy, etc….
If people could just stick to facts and personal experience without all the emotionally charged rhetoric, that would be great.
@@GeoffPeterson33 I agree but people tend to get very emotional and turn defensive.
@@GeoffPeterson33 how about left vs center vs right ?
As a former GA pilot, private aviation "bug smashers frequently use no FAA services at all unless they are on an instrument flight plan. GA is the training ground for your friendly commercial airline pilot. GA frequently volunteers emergency services at no cost. GA, especially Experimental aviation is a breeding ground for our next generation of engineers. The training is rigorous and costly. GA also supports small airports all across the country that relieve traffic congestion at major airports. It allows business aviation destinations to be closer than being funneled to major air traffic hubs.
Thanks, Petter 👍
You're very welcome
Saw this title and thought "Gee, the comments section should be interesting on this one". I was not disappointed.
Trump thought bitcoin was a scam UNTIL his largest donor said he likes bitcoin (peter Theil)
Thanks Petter.. with your boost in rate of delivery these days I'm actually having to catch up. ❤
Straight to the comments…😂
Something worth remembering is Trump can't do most of these things on his own, he needs congress. And while the Republicans do have the majority there as well, it's a fairly slim majority. It only takes a few Republican senators or a handful of representatives to keep a bill from passing and those people will be up for re-election sooner. It's a near certainty that these things as well as tariffs will be negotiated out and either never happen or be significantly different than the proposals we're seeing now.
The problem is that the ones that arent loyel enough to not do what he says may have been changed
Are the people there gonna tell him to not nuke a hurricane or are they yes men?
6:16 not sure if this was poor word choice or a subtle jab, but Presidents do not rule, they serve (terms). It's a subtle but important distinction with most democracies, but especially the USA. We The People rule the USA, and our government serves us by upholding the Constution. Not trying to start anything - I just think it's important to remember despite their power, Presidents are not kings.
Of course Trump is not a king...BUT as he said he will be a dictator for just one day...and four years I guess.
Presidents in the USA actually enjoy considerably more power than the executive branch in most other democracies. Unfortunately the word choice has merit :(
If that was true, the politicians are mostly bought true campaign donations, and then they continue to be bought for next donations etc. Trump have always been a conman and now he will do everything to continue making money and to make sure he control everything he puts loyalists and family members into important positions. Just like Putin. The world richest man is Putin,
That is false. And also your country is not a democracy, it's a representative democracy.
Sorry but the US system is problematic precisely because the office has far more power - particularly over appointments in the judiciary and key government agencies - than any other democracy. Whenever a new President gets in virtually the entire government changes and all based on the whims of one person. And if one gets to appoints say 3-4 Supreme Court judges who are loyal to the, - we’ll that’s one branch of government taken care of
When will you understand the impact of VPN. Out of dozens of datapoints you send to a server, only one changes: close to no impact
Lolol. Try the Tor browser. No vpn matches it.
VPNs have their place esspecially for avoiding monitoring by ypur ISP but to act like they hide your identity for any sote you log into is a joke
I really think we need to elect an adorable fat little penguin as the next next President of Earth. Would it fix anything? No, probably not. Would it make anything worse? No, probably not. There would just be an adorable fat little penguin, and we as a species would, even if for just a moment, have to stop and acknowledge that.
"You know, FDR, 16 years - almost 16 years - he was four terms. I don't know, are we going to be considered three-term? Or two-term?" Trump asked the NRA crowd.
"I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote,"-Trump
You are the best explainer of aviation, Petter. Thanks!
Think you’re also forgetting that trump forced Boeing to renegotiate the Air Force One contracts. Now fixed price and a great source of financial pain for Boeing
That was Boeings own fault. They didn't work out all the kinks in the plan now it came back and bit them. Besides there are other cost plus contracts that there milking
That was Boeing's fault lol
@@valkyrie013 them making money from other contracts doesn’t negate the fact trump made Boeing promise they wouldn’t cost over $2B each
@@patricktuggles4815 trump forcing the CEO to promise they wouldn’t cost over $2B each was Boeing fault? Ok sure 😂
@ why would you as a company try to listen to what someone that doesn't operate it tell you how to price something lol
We need the whole Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Military planes video!
Great content! We need to have the ability to talk honestly about difficult topics
That’s what I’m trying to do
It's gonna be interesting to see how things unfold.
just look at trumps last term
When Canada privatized ATC the controllers did very well financially.
It was a monopoly that could charge what it wanted. The same for airports in Canada, which have some of the highest costs in the world.
Privatized monopolies. It is very expensive to fly in Canada with taxes and fees often exceeding the ticket cost.
The US isn't Canada though, just ask any right winger why we don't have single payer healthcare in the US and they'll gladly remind you of that.
@taxirob2248 I was speaking of what happens when aviation assets are privatized.
Health care in Canada is in a terrible state.
Let's get back to an aviation discussion.
@@larrydugan1441 healthcare as an employee benefit is an input cost for their employers, so it is very relevant when we are talking about privatization as current government employee plans are better than most private ones.
And what's wrong with healthcare in Canada exactly? Got some anecdotal long wait time stories for us? I can find just as many about Americans with private insurance, including people I know personally.
@taxirob2248 yawn. There is no defending Canadian health care. That is a rabbit hole.
Let's get back to aviation.
Stay on topic please. This is an aviation channel.
When you have objectives that you see as essential to achieve then you will try to motivate the other players by whatever means you have available to you. Tariffs as a motivational tool can easily be rescinded when the objective is achieved.
Even though EuroControl has worked well for decades and could be an effective basis for similar ATC in USA, I seriously doubt it will happen, for the very simple reason that americans are very distrustful of anything that's not "american". Many americans would see it a too socialist, even without any direct governmental involvement. I can see another potential problem if the EuroControl model were exported to USA, and quite simply that is american greed: they would turn it into a for-profit industry for the primary benefit of its investors and shareholders, and we all know how well that ethos works for healthcare, education, prisons, etc...
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You left out German privatization of ATC directly led to a collision
American Greed LMAO. How interesting that greed is only in one country in your mind.
Eurocucks say this but nearly all European businesses move to USA because it's simply better.
Many would argue private education outpaces public. Healthcare in the US is still the envy of the world, despite all its shortcomings, which is why those rich sheiks all come to the US for healthcare when it matters. Prisons I don't know enough about to say one way or the other.
When Boeing cannot even get their software to read two separate angle of attack sensors for redundancy, with no limits on the trim allowed.... they are right down there with the DMV service centers.
Every automobile with throttle by wire has such redundancy built into it. Easy to do. Boeing needs a major shake-up if it hasn't happened already.
He'll look at Boeing and say 'Boeing, you're fired'.
Very interesting information. I appreciate your details in this video.
He'll call someone at Boeing, announce that they had an excellent conversation, & declare that they will be fixing all their bad airplanes so all the problems are solved then he'll go play a round of golf or his specialty, butt-tennis.
Wow. An absolutely wonderful video.
Thank you very much!
@@MentourNow Yes, great job as always! Perfectly unpolarized and neutral.
Privatisation is a great strategy which has never backfired in any way. Let's go!
He's probably gonna tariff Embraer to help Boeing. Funnily enough the US used tariffs to industrialize, then created an international organization to sanction anyone who used tariffs to protect their own industries, and now that they aren't competitive they'll use them again.
He does that, and he empowers the Chinese aviation industry as he did with Airbus and Bombardier!!
@@mohamadtayara3380yeah and that’s a huge problem because it is way more easier to acquire Airbus. And if that one Chinese aerospace company gains more leverage and trust, it may also come around to steal some Boeing clients.
Tariffs like the Marshal Plan? Where we agreed to crippling tariffs on US good so that Europe could recover?
Much of the EU (and Japan) still imposes huge tariffs on US goods to protect their own industries.
Free trade is a great thing provided it really is free trade.
Boeing nearly bought Embraer once before. Maybe this gets that deal done for them.
I highly doubt that. I don’t think Embraer is even a major competitor to Boeing especially as the Scope Clause all but bans the new E-jets in the US. And even if it was, Boeing is a major exporter so I’d say it has more to lose than to win if there is an all out tariff war or airliners (I guarantee that if the US would put tariffs of foreign made airliners there would be retaliatory tariffs affecting Boeing.
As I recall the US did once try non union ATC when the ATC went on strike.
See: 1981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization strike.
Very concerned about promised deregulation (especially safety/maintenance) and targeting/cost-cutting agencies like the NTSB and FAA. Some things you really shouldn’t deregulate as regs often exist for a good reason. I’d like to say such fear is unfounded, but it’s most definitely not.
Deregulation targets overregulation and harmful regulations. At lest that's the idea.
@@andrasbiro3007 Even Elon said they might not get it right the first time. Imagine at what cost that will come. Think Trumps voters will hold him accountable when we see hyper inflation and our education become non existent?
Cutting wasteful spending is not the same as deregulating.
Deregulation allows businesses to thrive, which benefits everyone.
Cutting wasteful spending does not necessarily mean a decrease in safety. The government is currently unsafe in many aspects and is bloated. So having more money and more employees hasn't done anything great for safety either.
Those who regulate safety must have no financial incentives. Privatized regulation just wont stay free of that. In fact, Boeing aircraft have become so dangerous that federal QC is needed in their factories. Boeing hasnt been able to resist their worst urges toward greed, even when it ran the risk of ruining their own industry.
On top of the tariffs, wouldn't be surprised if it also jumps airspace costs, so, less American tourists going out and less visitors visiting USA
Trump is also likely to weaken the position of unions
A lot of the blue collar union workers are his supporters too. It will be interesting.
He appointed a pro union, former democratic secretary in some kind of role isn't?
@@chakraborty1989 Trump and Prosject 2025 is very anti union and workers rights
@@chakraborty1989 that doesn’t guarantee that said pick will be approved by the right wing senate, a right wing that is anti labor.
good , unions are ineffiecient and costly nd also oppose radical changes .... shush go away .
Thanks for the informed analysis.
Don’t you worry, Peter. Things will be just fine. Trump was president once before and the sky didn’t fall then.
He didn't know how to navigate the checks and balances around him then. He's got it all worked out now. Even then, his last presidency was a total disaster as soon as there was any hint of a crisis.
Trump tryed to nuke a hurrican...
Thankfully his cabinet wasnt as crazy
Trump has also made comments that if they vote for him this one time they wont have to vote again....
Sure, but we fot a 15% deficit followed by a 20% inflation. Sure the sky didn't fall but things got really bad
A very good listen, thanks Mentor team. I thought it would be good and glad I waited until I had the proper time to listen and learn fully rather than just background YT play.
you can be sure that any privatization will include employee wages going down, and user costs going up. - and no tax reductions for working people.
And who is going to swoop in and be that private company? Probably a trump friend. Gotta keep those profits up
I disagree. Airports in Canada have been privatized in the same way for several decades. They still manage to operate just as badly as their publicly owned and operated counterparts in the US.
@@oscariniguez101 disagree, that's now how it works
@@JC-PSC the entire Canadian business environment is different. We don't have NHS down here in the US, so employees often have to choose between decent wages OR good benefits. If the ATC union is broken, they're screwed.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this.
Its nice to see a video that acknowledges how unfairly the President was criticised during his first term - as the only World Leader to immediately ground the Max following the 2 crashes he forced the rest of the world to follow suit, something many forget about.
DT is a negotiator, it won’t be surprising if he is throwing around these big threats now to eventually settle on something more realistic later on. You don’t go into a negotiation and immediately offer your lowest acceptable outcome, you go in hard and strong and compromise from there. Will be interesting to see how it all plays out
Firstly, as has been debunked numerous times and repeatedly stated by Trump, The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 mandate has nothing to do with the Trump administration. During the pre-COVID 2016 administration, the aviation industry experienced a huge boom period. The Trump administration's deregulations contributed to this growth, as did record-high passenger numbers between 2018 and 2019. The massive tax cuts from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 also helped significantly. We can look forward to more positive actions like this, I would say.
i get tired of hearing too, same with the OMG blanket tarrifs crowd
Uh huj
Then why did he put the people that wrote project 2025 in his goverment?
Actions speak loader then words
It might be independent from Trump. But half of his gov participated on the redaction of the document. So yes, project 2025 is the guideline for trup sgov, even if Trump says the opposite. Also, do you still Trust what Trump says? Why?!
GA is already getting priced out for people even here in the US. Everything is so expensive and everyone is aging out and no one new is coming in, due to the high barrier of entry for flying in general, and the cost of aircraft being so high. :( I'd really hate to see the GA scene die even faster than it already is.
The free market requires failure. When companies feel safe and aren't innovative, then they need to free up room in the marketplace for someone else to come in.
And this is why free market anarchists have no place in any ATC functions, or any other public safety functions, we the people should not tolerate free market "failures" aka incompetence to gamble with our lives on some airy fairy notion of it "freeing up space" for mere competition.
Awesome analysis, appreciate your logical views on things
The strongest economy and also the biggest debt.. And how are they the biggest exporter when the military is included?.
yeah. That's how it works.
Almost as if comparing absolute figures is meaningless.
why?
@@TheRuben_musicmost people don't vote thinking it makes no difference ):
"We solved the ATC shortage by worsening the pilot shortage!" xD God, I hope they handle it sensibly. I was fighter mx in the USAF and it's extremely rough, but it doesn't come close to the stress and pressure those poor tower flowers are under.
It reminds me a conversation with a former Air Force JTAC, when I asked if he has a civilian ATC license, he said "yes, but f**k that life". Like it's way harder than was directing A10s in Afghanistan.
@@solarissv777 it is probably
The best kind of youtuber is one who doesn't really go into controversial topics such as politics. Thank you for being that kind of youtuber.
You can try to hide from politics, but it knows exactly where you are.
México here. Excellent episode.
It is funny how a lot of people in the comment section are against privatization even though the EU has done it and y'all don't see an issue with that. Y'all like to say the US should be more like the EU and when it does y'all are complaining?
Privatization is not always a bad thing if done properly. Having the people have more control over regulation on how things are run is better rather than the government having all of the control.
If you believe in Trump to do it properly then you better believe in God!
In France ATC is set up by state (DGAC) and while it is effectively founded by airlines I see it more like a tax. That's not really what I would call private sector since there are no competition between different ATC's.
Highways and train have been given to private sector though and I strongly believe it has been detrimental to consumers.
well Europe is very different from the USA. also if the gov't was democratic then gov't control means peoples control
@ First you moving the post. Y’all love to say US should be EU and now complaining that they do the same thing in Europe.
Second, American is a republic not a democracy. It’s for the balance of people and the government.
Third, just because you democracy doesn’t mean not mean there can’t be government big and overreach of government powers.
China has democratic elections, but the government almost controls everything.
Same with Russia and Europe.
And one closer to home Canada has democratic elections but the Canada is overbearing on there people.
Also, many people are irrational when it comes to voting and they easily sway by a charismatic leader or political idea that sounds good, but doesn’t actually stand up the problem it tries to solve.
Europe also tends to have any regulation to speak of.
I can’t think of a single positive example of privatization.
You have to remember that EU is not a country. That means that private companies that work for EU as a whole can be checked by 27 different governments at any moment and they can publicly talk about it in the EU parliament. If the private company tries to "play games" and becomes corrupted in consultation with, let's say, 2 different countries there are still 25 governments to check what's going on. And that's only the countries that are in the Union. In the USA we are talking about one government and one private company, things can easily get out of hand with that combination. Life can become much harder for ATC controllers, general aviation pilots etc just for the sake of one company's profit.
Absolutely the best segue from topic to sponsor.
Price shopping is an unstoppable pandemic. We want high wages and cheap goods. When domestic companies find that making goods elsewhere and shipping them back increases their profits there isn’t much reason to stay. Tariffs are the only way to stem the tide of imported goods and force companies to bring factories back to the USA. The only building I see around me for the last 15 and more years is warehouses. It’s difficult to drive an economy forwards when all your money is going somewhere else.
Just remember... the company making the profits is still American. US companies usually have a tax deals in their host nations. So they pay no tax or lower tax rate than native companies. All your money is not going anywhere but to US companies. We (natives) certainly do not see it. All we natives get, is job experience making goods for American consumers. Often we cannot translate that work experience to home made products due to the massive among of US patents. Only the chinese have managed to push their native technology far enough that they can compete.
"Is Boeing really too big to faill?" Yes, case in point the SLS program.
SLS is supported by Congress as it acts as a job creation program that senators and Congress can tout to their states.
We can talk about the The Starliner
The US is $35 TRILLION in debt. Our debt payments alone are more than most countries' annual budgets. With everyone yelling for more funding and subsidies for their pet projects, it isn't likely that experimental fuels for airlines are going to get much attention.
Who do we actually owe the debt to? Do we not owe it to the Federal Reserve Bank? Was that the same bank that produced money from nothing and then turned around and charged us interest on it? Is not the federal reserve bank tied directly to the bank of England? In fact, it's not every single bank of every country tied into our federal reserve bank? I think that if you ask the majority of Americans about the federal reserve bank, they'll likely think it is one of the branches of the government. They don't teach it in high school anymore. There is a movement a foot in the world today outside the United States to combat the American Dollar, and to unseat it as the popular world currency.
Does that mean that the department of education has to be defunded?
No becose thats ******
The us has dept
Other countrys have lived with a higher gdp to dept ratio
Starting to defunt stuff wont end well
So appreciate your balanced neutral presentation
On Trump's Tariff plans, one thing to keep in mind is that, while he likely would implement them if it came to it, he is intending to not have to. Essentially he's using them as a threat to force these countries to the negotiating table, as the United States has ended up in some less-than-favorable deals regarding both trade and foreign policy that he wants renegotiated, and he'd like to see an end, or at least adjustments to some of these countries' policies that directly affect the United States negatively.
If he did have to implement the tariffs, the secondary goal would be to break free of the reliance on trade partners for certain goods, and the idea is that the domestically made goods would be more economically viable with the tariffs in place, then prices would drop further as competition increases to produce them. More money being kept within the United States and being spent on domestic goods would hopefully mean greater independence, more jobs, and hopefully higher wages to offset those costs. Additionally, the affected trade partners would have to be aware that the longer they wait to give in, the more independent these industries would become and the less likely they might be to return to their products under a different regime, adding a ticking clock to the incentive to negotiate.
I've largely only seen the worst possible outcome reported by our news media in the United States, and likely from much of the foreign coverage as well, and just wanted to add that there is a method to the madness. Whether that will work? I have no idea, I'm not an economist, I'm just watching all this play out too, but I'd prefer to be optimitsic, while still preparing for the worst, and extra knowledge on the situation doesn't hurt.
we're already operating under the NAFTA replacement that HE negotiated, so what was the point of threatening Mexico and Canada? P.S. you should read what the president of Mexico said about their interaction, it's completely different from what Trump tweeted out.
So you are telling both the products will become cheaper, and wages for the people, producing them higher? How is it supposed to work?
Those are a lot of assumptions. First, companies would need to invest heavily in setting up factories and purchasing equipment to produce these goods domestically, which requires significant upfront costs. To recover these expenses, they would likely increase prices, passing the burden onto consumers. This would especially impact families who are already struggling financially, as they would face even higher prices in the short term.
The idea that other companies would then enter the market, lowering prices through competition, is uncertain. Even if this happens, both companies would still initially sell goods at higher prices compared to imported alternatives. Expecting families to endure these higher costs now in the hope that prices will eventually decrease may not be realistic, as most people are focused on immediate affordability rather than long-term projections.
Additionally, higher wages would benefit employees of these companies, but the rest of the population, who do not work there, would still face increased costs without the advantage of higher income.
While the strategy aims to create greater economic independence and job growth, the immediate impact would likely be financial strain for many households. It’s uncertain whether people would be willing to bear that burden long enough for the supposed benefits to materialize.
@@solarissv777 how about we don't pay boeing 5k for toilet dispensers anymore
@@Cursory3I am in the US and I only buy products from China. I also run a LLC with the goal of hiring minimum people in the US as possible and outsourcing as much as it can. If Trump’s gonna do that, I am going to find some channel to import stuff directly from China (via Mexico or something) and sell them at the American price.
The interactions of massive economies of large businesses, countries, and internationally are just so, So, SO, complex, I think it's beyond anyone's full comprehension. Any changes need to be gradual: twiddle something somewhere, then wait a while to see what unexpected consequences arise. Then tweak something else and watch a while more. Any massive, sudden, policy changes are bound to have wide-ranging impacts, many of which are totally unanticipated. Even being generous and allowing that some behaviors might be based on best intentions (which I doubt they are, sorry, just had to slip that in), massive actions are bound to create massive chaos. I'm a cynic; I question the motives of all politicians, business CEOs, governments, both public and private.
Tween the threats of tariffs, and the privatizing of ATC has me seriously thinking of selling my General Aviation assets and giving up flying along with my flying goals. If aviation gets as expensive here as it is elsewhere, I'm worried that I won't be able to afford to fly anymore, and I also won't be able to get as much for the share in my flying club, headsets, etc. that I'll no longer need. Then fewer people will also be able to sustain participation meaning the market will be flooded with supplies that will see a value drop if I wait too long. A lose-lose as it were.
I finally crossed 1,250 hours hours in my logbook too. So close, yet so far. But yeah. Whole thing is crushing my drive to figure a way through it out.
I love aviation and I love US presidents. So this is a great topic.
Let's keep the comment section as Swedish as possible: disagree respectfully and be too polite to fight each other, then rant in any way you please to your loved ones behind the scenes☝️😌😂🇸🇪 I actually think this would solve some of the issues the rest of the world has today - we have them too, but the risk of social ostracizing does keep the rudeness and drama to a minimum 😂
You mean like Sweden did when they talked to fascists, and now 20% of the Swedish population is openly supporting Jimmy the nazi?
"Jimmy Åkesson, SHA LALA LALA..." and "media is not welcome to our post election party".
There is ONLY ONE SIDE trying to say things like you do, EXACTLY like MAGA fascists in USA.
Are you voting for the swedish fascist party "sverige demokraterna"?!?
The ONLY WAY to beat nazis is to be OPEN AND AGAINST IT AND NEVER LET THEM IN. EVER!
It doesn't really matter what changes happen, all changes will cause a certain amount of disruption before everything settles. If the change is for the better, there will still be those who see the rough patches and remain opposed. It's like cleaning a house - it starts to look more messy before you finish, but then everything is great except for the bottom drawer in the kitchen.
if trump did not come in and mess everything up again
Simple, he will build the best planes ever, nobody will have ever seen such planes, they will be the planest planes ever made in history.
And Mexico will pay for them.
I just spilled my covfefe
If you aren't a comedian you should consider it!
We MAGA approve of this humor 😂. Good one 👍🏾
don't forget he will make crashing illegal so the planes can safest in the world so safe they make boeing safe
Your TDS is showing...
Thank you, this was very interesting.
"Too big to fail" is never a statement of fact, it's is always a euphemism for "I don't want my friends to lose their gravy train." Every single bailout that was chalked-up to "too big to fail" have ALWAYS resulted in the CEO getting a massive payout.
Great report Petter