In my latest article, " <https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/What-Should-Airlines-W ant-MTS-WINTER-2026.pdf> What Should Airlines Want?" (FAA's Manager's Association, Managing the Skies, Winter 2026 edition), I asked a simple question, "How should airlines want to fly their aircraft". Airlines had no answer when I asked this question while introducing FreeFlight in the mid-1990s, and they still have no answer today. Airlines continue to unnecessarily abdicate control over the moment of their aircraft to Air Traffic Control (ATC). Of course, separation (and safety) belongs to ATC, but this leaves lots of flexibility for airlines to step in (and step up) to manage the movement of their aircraft. Airlines/Users need to lay down a "day of" optimized operational goal for each aircraft and then execute to that goal as close as possible every day. Also consider that FAA's Hail Mary in its planned $32.5 Billion future ATC system, including the ATC centric aircraft Flow Management Data and Services (FMDS) Challenge, will do little to fix airline delays and has the potential to haunt airlines, and all of aviation for decades ( <https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GreenLandings%C2%AE-vs .-TBFM-2025-02.pdf> Airline/User Centric GreenLandingsR Aircraft Flow Solution vs. FAA's ATC Centric TBFM, 2025-02). Letting ATC further institutionalize their control over the movement of the airline's/user's aircraft will lock out their "day of" business goals now and into the future. At a time when technology allows airlines/users to easily input their real time "day of" business goals into the movement of their aircraft (schedule, connections, gate availability, crew legality, fuel, maintenance, galleys, lavs, etc.), and especially the arrival flow (thus preventing most delays), airlines have no interest. Which flight lands first, second, third, fourth, etc. is critical to the success of an airline's "day of" operation. For example, starting hours prior to landing, an airline/user might want to speed up an aircraft to move it forward in the arrival queue to land 10 minutes early because the pilots are close to becoming illegal for the next flight. Or the airline/user might slow a late flight enroute, save fuel, and land later since the gate is not available. Or the airline may speed up a flight to make it 20 minutes early to act as a virtual spare or because of required maintenance. Or...but you get the idea. Let's face it, unnecessarily abdicating "day of" operational control of the movement of an airline's aircraft, their primary production process, to a government agency (privatized or not) makes no business sense. The fact is airlines can no longer afford their fire and forget, wing and a prayer, "day of" operation where they send Billions of dollars of aircraft out on the wing and pray that it all works out. It rarely does. Starting within months airlines/users can, and must take back control of their aircraft movement using <https://greenlandings.net/> GreenLandingsR "day of", pilot managed, real time airline/user centric arrival/departure demand management solution, based on airline/user, ATC, and airport "day of" requirements (business and safety). Airlines could. Airlines should. Airlines refuse. What Airlines Should Want (Managing the Skies, Winter 2026) - <https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/What-Should-Airlines-W ant-MTS-WINTER-2026.pdf> https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/What-Should-Airlines-Wa nt-MTS-WINTER-2026.pdf Airline/User Centric GreenLandingsR Aircraft Flow Solution vs. FAA's ATC Centric TBFM (2025-02) - <https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GreenLandings%C2%AE-vs .-TBFM-2025-02.pdf> https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GreenLandings%C2%AE-vs. -TBFM-2025-02.pdf In Sync with your Arrival (GE Aviation, 2013) - <https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=biv-7dWFprY> https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=biv-7dWFprY Aviation Needs a New Direction (Managing the Skies, Nov/Dec 2019) - <https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Aviation-Needs-a-New-D irection-MTS-Nov-Dec-2019.pdf> https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Aviation-Needs-a-New-Di rection-MTS-Nov-Dec-2019.pdf, ATC is Not the Problem (Managing the Skies, Spring 2022) - <https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ATC-is-Not-the-Problem -MTS-2022-03-15.pdf> https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ATC-is-Not-the-Problem- MTS-2022-03-15.pdf GreenLandingsR Real World Examples (2024-08) - <https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GreenLandings%C2%AE-Re al-World-Examples-2024-09-06.pdf> https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GreenLandings%C2%AE-Rea l-World-Examples-2024-09-06.pdf GreenLandingsR Benefit Summary (2023-05) - <https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GreenLandings-Benefit- Summary-2023-05.pdf> https://greenlandings.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GreenLandings-Benefit-S ummary-2023-05.pdf Michael xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx R. 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