GreenLandings® Articles, Publications and News
What Should Airlines Want? (Managing the Skies, Winter 2026)
NextGen Stalls Out After $36 Billion Push (Flying Magazine, Ryan Ewing, 2025-10-02)
Why the FAA Has Spent 40 Years Modernizing Air Traffic Control – and Still Isn’t Done (Vincent Bianco, Leeham News, 2026-01-13)
Privatizing ATC Won’t Solve the Air Safety Issue (Palm Beach Post, Michael Baiada, 2025-03-27)
Here’s how to fix America’s air traffic control system (www.Newsday.com, RW Mann, 2025-02)
- Aviation Needs A New Direction, Driven by Vision & Leadership (Managing the Skies, Nov/Dec 2019)
Dr. Russ Ackoff System Discussion Video (YouTube, 1994, 12 minutes)
- Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ, Ahmad Fuad Video, 2012-01-04)
- Air Traffic Control is Not the Problem (Managing the Skies, Spring 2022)
- GreenLandings® Real World Examples (2024-08)
- GreenLandings® Benefit Summary (2023-05)
- GreenLandings® Single Airline Operational Excellence Benefit Analysis (2024-12)
- GreenLandings® Briefing (2023-03-01)
- GreenLandings® Summary Description (2022-10)
- GreenLandings® vs. FAA’s TBFM (2025-02)
- GreenLandings® Atlanta Taxi Time Analysis (2014-06)
- GreenLandings® Heathrow Interview by Harold Goodwin (video – 46:46, 2020-12-30)
- Institutionalizing Operational Dismality (Managing the Skies, Fall 2021)
- Airports Cutting Flights (The Street, 2023-04-01)
- Say No To This ‘New Normal’ And Embrace Real ATC Evolution (Aviation Week Intelligence, RW Mann, 2023-12-23)
Ok, Smart ass….? (LinkedIn, 2023-12-13)
- Can Airlines Internally Rapidly Reduce CO2 and Delays? (Leeham News Analysis, 2023-07-31)
- ATC system delay solution? (JDA Journal, 2019-12-09)
- Fastest Airlines in the U.S. (Forbes.com, 2019-06-17)
- Methodology For The Fastest Airlines List (Forbes.com, 2019-06-17)
- NAS Congestion – Who’s to Blame (Managing the Skies, Summer-Fall 2018)
- Not Working! (ATCA Tech Symposium, Atlantic City, 2018-05-16)
- Air Traffic Control Privatization: Will It Solve Anything? (Podcast, 2018-03-29)
- Solving the Right Airline Problem (RM Baiada, 2017-10)
- ATC Privatization – Good or Bad? (Managing the Skies, Sep/Oct 2017)
- Parked Planes Cost Airlines Billions (Forbes.com, 2017-08)
- Air traffic control privatization is political gamesmanship, also fixing air travel starts with airline management (Daily Bulletin, 2017-06)
- Airlines should stop blaming others and fix their problems (Boston Globe, 2017-06)
- Airlines Need to Stop Taking Customers for Granted (Fortune.com, 2017-05)
- Airline Delays: ATC Not the Problem (Forbes.com, 2017-03)
- Normalization of Deviance (Brian Strobel Ted Talk, 2016-11-21)
- Whether to privatize air traffic control a foolish debate (Chicago Business, 2016-03-10)
- What Stands in the Way of Reducing ATC Driven Delays and Their Negative Impact on Airlines and Passengers? (Beyond Disruption Blog, 2016-02-24)
- Passengers Face Unnecessary Delays, Cancellation This Holiday Season (Forbes.com, 2015-11-24)
- Part 1 – Airlines’ 40% Failure Rate: 850,000 Passengers Will Arrive Late Today — And Every Day (Dan Reed, Forbes.com, 2015-07-06)
- Part 2 – Airlines’ 40% Failure Rate: 850,000 Passengers Will Arrive Late Today — And Every Day (Dan Reed, Forbes.com, 2015-07-07)
- Part 3 – Airlines’ 40% Failure Rate: 850,000 Passengers Will Arrive Late Today — And Every Day (Dan Reed, Forbes.com, 2015-07-08)
- Part 4 – Airlines’ 40% Failure Rate: 850,000 Passengers Will Arrive Late Today — And Every Day (Dan Reed, Forbes.com, 2015-07-09)
- Airlines Could Be Tracking Their International Flights (Cheaply) By Summer, If Only… (Forbes.com, 2015-03-12)
- NextGen Reality Check (Managing the Skies, Jul/Aug 2014)
- Who Controls the Blue (Managing the Skies 2014-03-19)
- Dubai Final FLOW Report (GE Aviation, 2013-12-15)
- In Sync with your Arrival (GE Aviation video, 2013-02-18)
- Attila Arrives (Aviation Week, 2013-01-14)
- Task J Airspace Complexity Analysis (FAA Task J, Embry-Riddle, 2013)
- Task J D29 Final Delta v US Air (FAA Task J, Embry-Riddle, 2012-09)
- Task J D28 Final MSP Report (FAA Task J, Embry-Riddle, 2012-08-12)
- Task J CLT Excess Distance (FAA Task J, Embry-Riddle, 2011-10-01)
- Sins of the Big 3 (Aviation Week, 2010-10-19)
- Why a Six-Hour Flight Now Takes Seven (WSJ, 2010-02-04)
- Flights’ Flow Gets Innovative Fix (Denver Post, 2008-05-26)
- Network Airline Production Problem (Annals of Air and Space Law, 2008-05-25)
- Flight Delays Cost Passengers, Airlines and the U.S. Economy Billions (Senate Joint Economic Committee, 2008-05)
- Confessions of an Attila™ Doubter (Delta Air Lines Checklist Publication, 2007-09-01)
- Why Toyota is beating GM (Newsweek, 2006-10)
- ATH Group ATC Maastricht Innovation Award (ITT, 2005-02)
- It’s the Structure: It’s Always been the Structure (RM Baiada, 2000-08)
- RMB Testimony Civil Aviation Review Commission (1997-10-08)
- In Search of the Future Air Traffic Control (Tekla S. Perry, 1997-08-01)
- FreeFlight Press Release (Associated Press, 1995-01-13)
- RMB Congressional Testimony (1994-08-09, starts at 19:36)
- Blueprint to FreeFlight – 3 Volume Set (1994)
- DNAV: What’s So Different About It (Pro Pilot, 1984-04)
- Automation of On-Board Flightpath Management (Heinz Erzberger, 1980)
- We’re Running Out of Airspace (Clifford Hicks, Popular Mechanics Magazine 1956-01)
- Berlin Airlift (Air Force History 1948 – 1949)