Wed, Aug 17, 2011
Says 'Stability Needed' To Protect Trust Fund, NextGen
Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA) President
Greg Principato (pictured) has joined the chorus urging the
bipartisan congressional leadership of both the Senate Commerce,
Science & Transportation Committee and the House Transportation
and Infrastructure Committee to pass a long-term extension of the
operating authority of the FAA when they return to Washington next
month.
In his letter, Principato emphasized, "At a time when both the
economy and job growth are on shaky ground, one positive step
Congress can take is to provide a two-year extension of the
FAA’s operating authority through Fiscal Year 2013 in order
to provide the stability needed to plan and move forward with
needed improvements in the national aviation transportation system
and to protect the integrity of the Aviation Trust Fund."
Principato stresses that airports will continue to support the
efforts of both chambers to complete their negotiations on the
pending FAA bill but, "Congress cannot afford to leave the aviation
industry or the FAA in limbo any longer. In the last year and a
half alone there have been 12 extensions, providing an average of
51 days of operating authority. This is not, as Department of
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has said, the way to run the
safest aviation system in the world."
Airports Council International - North America represents local,
regional and state governing bodies that own and operate commercial
airports in the United States and Canada.
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