This is the April 4, 1957 interim report of Edward P. Curtis, President Eisenhower’s Special Assistant for Aviation Facilities Planning. It recommends the immediate establishment of an independent Airways Modernization Board to mediate between the…
“The recent five-week partial government shutdown offered new fodder for those who support turning air traffic control (ATC) over to a nonprofit private entity.”
This is a proposed amendment in the nature of a substitute (ANS) to S. 1405, the Senate version of the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, dated June 27, 2018 and subsequently put through the “hotline”…
This is a document called “User Charges: Panacea or Pitfall?” produced by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) in 1969 to provide policy justification for their opposition to the concept of having to pay…
Sanford amendment #25 was offered to H.R. 4 on April 26, 2018 but then was modified by unanimous consent prior to adoption. The amendment text as originally offered is here, but that text must be…
Revised version of the Shuster manager’s amendment to H.R. 4, the FAA reauthorization bill, filed with the House Rules Committee right at the start of their hearing on H.R. 4 at 5 p.m. on April…
Original version of the Shuster (R-PA) manager’s amendment to H.R. 4, the FAA reauthorization bill, as filed with the House Rules Committee on the late afternoon of April 23, 2018.
This is an ETW side-by-side of the existing statutory title 49 language governing the air traffic control Chief Operating Officer and the changes that chairman Shuster proposed to make in his original manager’s amendment to…
This is an ETW side-by-side of the existing statutory title 49 language governing the Management Advisory Council and the changes that chairman Shuster proposed to make in his original manager’s amendment to H.R. 4 on…
Text of H.R. 4, the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018, as introduced in the House of Representatives on April 13, 2018 by Representatives, Shuster, DeFazio, LoBiondo and Larsen. The new bill is the text of…
Congress and the Trump administration have proposed to overhaul air traffic control (ATC) in the United States by removing the ATC function from the federal government and assigning it to a non-profit private corporation.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT), about 80 percent of domestic airline flights arrive on-time every year. That figure is largely unchanged since 2003 (Figure 1). However, those flights that are delayed…
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