Fri, Feb 18, 2005
Key Aviation Leaders Introduce Legislation To Reopen National
To Charter Operations
A new bill
introduced Thursday on Capitol Hill would require the DHS, in
consultation with the Department of Transportation, to develop
regulations within six months of the bill's passage that would
allow charter and general aviation operations to resume at DCA.
Such regulations may include the screening of all flights entering
the airport, physical inspections of aircraft, advance clearance of
passenger manifests by the Transportation Security Administration
(TSA), and limiting the airports from which flights into DCA can
originate.
The legislation was introduced, at the request of the National
Air Transportation Association (NATA), and will be forwarded for
consideration to the appropriate committees having oversight of
this issue.
United States Senator George Allen (R-VA), Congressman John Mica
(R-FL), Congressman Tom Davis (R-VA), and Congressman James Moran
(D-VA) Thursday introduced legislation that would direct the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to resume on-demand air
charter and general aviation operations at Ronald Reagan Washington
National Airport (DCA).
"We are very pleased that Senator Allen and Chairmen Mica and
Davis, as well as Congressman Moran, have continued the fight to
restore charter and general aviation flights to Ronald Reagan
Washington National Airport," NATA president James K. Coyne said
today. "Since 9/11 the general aviation industry has done
everything requested of it by the TSA and Federal Aviation
Administration to return non-scheduled operations to DCA, and yet
the government continues to remain silent on the issue. This bill
highlights the overwhelming support that exists for reopening our
nation's capital airport to charter and general aviation
operations.
"After over three years of delay, it is time the Administration
recognizes the enormous economic benefit charter and general
aviation provide to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area as well
as the extensive measures this industry has undertaken to ensure
the highest level of security," Coyne concluded. "The legislation
offered by Senator Allen and Congressmen Mica, Davis, and Moran is
a great step towards opening DCA to all of aviation once
again."
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