Airport Privatization

One of the most recent trends (relatively) in aviation, is Airport Privatization the FAA has developed an Airport Privatization Pilot Program . Currently there are only two airports in the system. In fact it can be said that going private is more widespread overseas than here in the USA. An interesting 1999 paper by a Professor at MIT shows just where this trend might be headed:  http://ardent.mit.edu/airports/ASP_papers/airport%20privatization%20issues%20for%20US.PDF