Bob Crandall and Doug Parker have both been CEO’s of American Airlines, with their careers spanning five decades starting in 1980.  But in a recent joint podcast both men, while staunch Democrats, say that privatizing air traffic control is the best way to improve air travel.

Crandall says Congress should create a system that pays for itself and operates the way a normal business operates.

“What needs to be done is to create a private enterprise or something that’s organized and operated like a private enterprise, but run with shared governance, including the government and commercial airlines and private aviation. But we need a better system and we need it very quickly….. Our friends up in Canada have done an excellent job of creating a system of that type.”