Comment by afavour
3 months ago
It's still a simplistic view. If you increase salaries the pay has to come from somewhere. Does that mean making flights more expensive? Or raising taxes? Either way it's not as simple as "just increase salaries, dummy".
Making flights more expensive would also address the ATC shortage, by reducing workload. Good idea.
(Econ 101 again: increased price -> reduced demand, i. e. fewer flights.)
Except that the people making these decisions are politicians. So while Econ 101 applies, so does Politics 101: don't anger voters. It's not uncommon for those two to be in conflict.