Group Urges Full Senate To Block Consideration Of FAA Bill With Dangerous Anti-Safety Language
With the FAA authorization set to expire at the end of September and regional airlines desperately attempting to water down critical safety initiatives which have resulted in eight years of no fatal commercial aviation crashes on US domestic carriers, the Families of Continental Flight 3407 vowed to continue their push to ensure that Congress does not cave in to pressure from regional airlines and their lobbyists.
The NTSB has released a preliminary report from an incident which saw an Air Canada A320 come within 100 feet of touching down on a taxiway on which several aircraft were lined up waiting for takeoff July 7.
Last week, in a press conference call with reporters, leading airline passenger rights and consumer advocates warned against what they say will be "negative and dire impacts" of air traffic control privatization. The current bill about to be considered in the U.S. House of Representatives H.R. 2997, known as the 21st Century AIRR Act, would transfer control of the nation’s vital air traffic control infrastructure to a private board heavily dominated by commercial airline interests and with no public accountability, leaving consumers and communities out in the cold, they say.
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