Hi, everybody. Our top priority as a nation must be growing the economy, creating good jobs, and rebuilding opportunity for the middle class. But two months ago, Congress allowed a series of automatic budget cuts to fall across the federal
For the past week, the White House has attempted to hurt the American public by creating unnecessarily negative results stemming from the sequestration deal originally designed by President Obama. The most prominent negative result was the furloughing of air traffic
As I pointed out yesterday, the White House was attempting to use concern about FAA furloughs to push forward a sequester replacement deal. As of this morning that attempt is a failure. Last night a bipartisan group of Senators passed
The US Senate passed quick-fix legislation to end the furloughs of air traffic control staff that have triggered thousands of flight delays across the country in the past week. The bill, which passed by unanimous consent following a public outcry
Late Thursday, Senate Democrats moved legislation to shift federal funds, allowing the FAA to cancel its planned furloughs of air traffic controllers. The proposal, which passed as Senators were leaving town for a week-long recess, would shift $250 million within
Last week three airline trade organizations joined together in legalaction against the FAA. During a press conference announcing the suit,the heads of two of the organizations made clear they believe the FAAhas become a political football in the hands of
FAA Administrator Michael Heurta told the Congressional Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation that he does not have the “flexibility” to transfer funds from an account dedicated to developing and implementing newer technology to an operations account to prevent furloughs. When asked
(AP) FAA furloughs kick in, some flight delays appearBy The Associated PressCommercial airline flights moved smoothly throughout most of the country on Sunday, the first day air traffic controllers were subject to furloughs resulting from government spending cuts, though some
A California city council on Thursday delayed a vote on a first-of-its-kind ordinance that would ban drones up to 400 feet above all areas that have been zoned as residential. The Rancho Mirage city council will now vote on the ordinance on
Stacy Clark, former air traffic controller at Sacramento Executive Airport, says that the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to shut down a control tower at the airport could lead to casualties. “I don’t want to say I told you so,” he
Drone tests may soon be carried out over a city near you. In response to Breitbart News queries about the limitations on the location of so-called “drone zones” – zones specifically designated to test commercial and military drones under Federal
Despite Americans’ concerns about the domestic use of drones, California local agencies are reportedly moving forward with an application to declare a broad swath of Southern California a “drone zone” – an area to be used to test pilotless aircraft.
(AP) FAA to close 149 air traffic towers under cutsBy JASON KEYSERAssociated PressCHICAGOUnder orders to trim hundreds of millions of dollars from its budget, the Federal Aviation Administration on Friday released a final list of 149 air traffic control towers
The Harlem Shake has reached new heights with a performance on a Frontier airplane, and that has the FAA in a low-grade panic according to Reuters. No, FAA officials aren’t commenting on any aesthetic concerns but rather possible safety issues. In
CANDY CROWLEY: As far as we can figure out, the FAA budget – we’re not even talking about the transportation – is about $15 billion give or take. They’re going to have to cut $600 million, about 4 percent. Why
On Friday, barring some last-minute, extraordinary action by Congress, the government’s sequestration takes effect. The sequester, approved during the debt ceiling talks in 2011, would require the federal government to trim about 1% of its spending over the next seven
The federal government says that with looming across-the-board budget cuts slated to hit next week, airline travelers should expect potential travel delays and cancelations. Executive Vice President of the Airports Council International–North America Deborah McElroy says the challenge is
(AP) FAA moves toward creating 6 drone test sites in USBy JOAN LOWYAssociated PressWASHINGTONIn a major step toward opening U.S. skies to thousands of unmanned drones, federal officials Thursday solicited proposals to create six drone test sites around the country.
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and TERRY TANG (AP) LOS ANGELES–Three people have been killed in a pre-dawn helicopter crash in a rural area of northern Los Angeles County while filming for a reality TV show. Los Angeles County Fire dispatcher Robert
President Barack Obama’s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chairwoman has an apparent conflict of interest with regard to her recent regulatory activity grounding Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner planes. Financial disclosure documents for NTSB chairwoman Deborah Hersman (pictured) obtained by Breitbart News
(AP) – Japan’s two biggest airlines grounded all their Boeing 787 aircraft for safety checks Wednesday after one was forced to make an emergency landing in the latest blow for the new jet. All Nippon Airways said a cockpit message
Wildfires in Colorado have now burned over 180,000 acres.Unfortunately, these fires come at a time when the federal governmenthas a historically low number of air tankers to fight suchblazes. By the government’s own estimates, it currently has undercontract just one-half
From Fox News: “A Delta passenger who filmed birds striking his plane over New York City’s John F. Kennedy International airport received a scathing letter from the Federal Aviation Administration condemning his use of an electronic during flight takeoff. […]
From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON — After five years of legislative struggling, 23 stopgap measures and a two-week shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, Congress finally has passed a bill aimed at prodding the nation’s aviation system into a new
**UPDATE: “He was beating the walls of the lavatory to the point that the captain called us to see what that was about. They heard it in the cockpit,” said one crew member on the JFK-bound flight who had to
The St. Cloud Regional Airport is banking on a recently announced $750,000 federal grant to land an airline at the airport that’s been virtually deserted since Delta terminated service in and out of St. Cloud in late 2009. Despite a
Most Americans have heard of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) through its ill-conceived scheme to prevent Boeing from building a new plant in South Carolina because the Palmetto State has a right-to-work law. The board’s actions have created a
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has basically been shut down thanks to the Senate Democrats addition to pork. 4,000 FAA employees have been furloughed until further notice. 70,000 construction workers must now sit on their hands as all airport construction
House Republicans have spent the last few months trying to put an end to a sneaky union move that might mean American workers lose their say in whether their shop forms a union. House Republicans have managed to head off
It’s been established that when the Obama administration can’t get part of its agenda legislated; they simply turn around and push it through the web-like bureaucracy at their disposal. Last year’s failed pro-union legislation was no exception; when ‘card check’
On Tuesday night, March 22nd, two planes landed at Washington, DC’s Reagan National airport (DCA) without proper tower clearance. As it happened, the air traffic controller, a career-veteran supervisor with decades of experience, had fallen asleep. Despite radio hails and
Ever since Obama was sworn in, obscure federal agencies have been churning out pro-labor, anti-worker rulemakings in an attempt to reverse declining unionization numbers. Indicative of this unionization through regulation strategy is the National Mediation Board’s (NMB) minority rule decision
No Commercial Flights, But Airport Still Hoping to Land More Federal Funds St. Cloud Regional Airport (STC) touts lots of amenities on its website–a café, ATM, free wi-fi, free parking and a $5 million completely renovated terminal whose capacity went
NBC New York: The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating why a child was allowed to direct air traffic at John F. Kennedy airport, one of the busiest airports in the country. The FAA says a controller brought the child to
Federal stimulus plan’s spending on roads and bridges has had no effect on unemployment, research finds; “Spend a lot or spend nothing at all, it didn’t matter,” the analysis showed as “local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless of how
Fox News: An FAA computer malfunction involving access to flight plans caused nationwide flight cancellations and delays Thursday. The glitch was fixed by mid-morning.The FAA said the computer system was up and running again before 10 a.m. EST. But flights
From the office of Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). Today’s edition identifies at least $11 million in wasteful Washington spending: Many Republican Senators complain about Obama spending policies, then vote for the spending increases Nearly $10 billion in stimulus aid to
NBC New York: The FAA has opened an investigation into why Mayor Bloomberg’s private helicopter pilot landed in a Meadowlands parking lot before a U2 concert. Pilot Toby Mason was on a trial run to this helipad, planning to return
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Fox News: The pilot died Thursday aboard Continental Flight 61, and two co-pilots took over the Boeing 777 aircraft’s controls, FAA spokesman Les Dorr told FOX News.