Domodedovo, also state owned, is run by a nimble, privately owned air transport company called the East Line Group.
The company's now customary moniker (presumably thanks to Wikipedia), China's "largest privately owned air transport company", ignores the fact that the controlling stake is held by an investment company owned by Hainan's provincial government.
And some conservative critics claim the F.A.A., despite huge spending for new air traffic control technology, is an inept bureaucracy that should be replaced with a privately owned air control organization.
French air traffic controllers, incensed at the European Union for discussing the idea of a central, and perhaps partially privately owned, air traffic system for all of Europe, walked off the job for 24 hours on Monday in a wildcat strike.
The closing of a small commuter airline serving five Caribbean islands just one year and six weeks after it began operations is causing concern among tourism officials, some of whom question whether the region's experiment with privately owned air service is working.
And if China is any example, he contended in a 2008 article, the adoption of air conditioning in developing countries could be rapid and vast: In 1990, fewer than 1% of Chinese households owned air conditioners, but by 2003, he reported, that number had increased to 62%.
