The Department of Transportation’s Secretary Foxx, the FAA Administrator Huerta and A4A President and CEO Nicholas E. Calio held a press conference on the issuance of the long-awaited final rules for air carriers to implement…
The FAA Administrator, in the below blog, points with pride to three accomplishments of 2014 and then explains the significance of each. This positive message is appropriate as it applies to the FAA staff; what…
It is hard to write a headline; especially when there’s both good news and bad news in the story. The below Baltimore Sun headline is based primarily on the press releases from the FAA, US…
Aviation is an unusual industry in that its primary assets, airplanes, are all infinitely movable. One exception to that theme is that airports are incredibly immovable objects. One would expect that with such fixed assets,…
This picture of a castle under attack seems to be an accurate symbol of the FAA’s current status. The below two linked critiques of the performance of the folks at 800 Independence Ave. are just…
Privatization of the Air Traffic Control is a concept which everyone agrees with on a theoretical basis, but when the specifics begin to be addressed the support quickly dissipates. The below Wall Street Journal article…
Good news, the Secretary makes a major pronouncement on funding of the Airport Improvement Program funding or lack thereof! At the FAA Hughes Technical Center (see ↑above) he announced support (see below ↓ blog). A…
There are moments of great surprise in the world of aviation. The below↓ article and another recent action by Chicago’s Mayor qualify as shocks! O’Hare is a major national, regional and local aviation asset. The…