TEMPE — Echoing Doug Parker’s plea for the government to “do no harm” to the airline industry, C. A. Howlett, US Airways’ top government affairs officer, outlined the challenges the industry — and US Airways in particular — face in the policy environment. His primary focus was the pending FAA reauthorization bill. Put off since [...]
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“There’s no part of our operation that government can’t find a way to improve.”
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, competition, congress, consumer advocacy, environment, faa, labor, politics, regulation, us airways on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
US Airways’ Doug Parker on challenges for the airline industry
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged business, consumer advocacy, labor, mergers, regulation, us airways on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
TEMPE — US Airways chairman and CEO Doug Parker opened the airline’s annual media day with remarks on the state of the airline industry, pointing out financial, political, and labor-related challenges in the year ahead and calling on airline managers to change the way they think about industry competition.
Parker has long been an apostle of [...]
U.S. then, Dubai now
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged emirates, labor, middle east on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Wall Street Journal has a striking item today on the life of flight attendants on Dubai’s state-owned Emirates Airline.* With its descriptions of high-rise Dubai living and poolside relaxation, it doesn’t sound so bad. But what’s striking is how similar the Emirates standards for flight attendants today are to U.S. standards of yesteryear. Consider:
“Tough [...]
A pilot’s take on Duane Woerth rumors
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged congress, faa, general aviation, labor, politics on November 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
There’s a lot of virtual ink being spilled in the blogosphere about Obama’s shortlist for FAA administrator. Some of those rumored to be under consideration include Representative Jerry Costello (D-Ill.), the chairman of the House Aviation Subcommittee; Representative Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.); Clinton-era FAA chief Jane Garvey; Robert Herbert, an aide to Senator Harry Reid [...]
Bankruptcy, not bailouts
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged atsb, business, labor, politics, travel, united on November 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I bet you’re thinking, how would a bailout of the “big three” U.S.-based automakers — General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler — affect a bailout of the airline industry? Tellingly, a few observers have compared the situation with the car-makers (Scene: Washington. Detroit: Give us big money money; our bankruptcy is your DOOM. Congress: Sure, always [...]
A memo to the next president
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, Aviation08, delays, Deregulation 2.0, faa, labor, politics on November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you’re a regular reader of the Aviation Policy Blog (and I hope you are; the best way to keep up to date is to subscribe to my feed), you’re well aware of how aviation is playing out in the 2008 election (or the extent to which it isn’t). In today’s Wall Street Journal, “Middle [...]
Aviation08: The McCain aviation record
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, Aviation08, competition, congress, faa, labor, open skies, politics, regulation, travel on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t had any luck getting the McCain campaign to fill me in on the details of his aviation plan (if he has one). His website has one mention of aviation, and it’s a throwaway press release on the air traffic control communications outage in August with a boilerplate call for reform in Washington. However, [...]
Obama’s labor love
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, Aviation08, congress, faa, labor, politics on September 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I previously wrote about Barack Obama’s aviation plan; today’s post is about the one aviation-related bill he’s introduced in Congress, the FAA Fair Labor Management Dispute Resolution Act of 2006 (S 2201). The bill, which never made it out of committee, would have amended the FAA’s personnel management procedures so that the FAA administrator would [...]
Aviation08: The Obama aviation plan
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, airports, Aviation08, congress, delays, dot, faa, labor, politics, safety, security, small communities, tsa on September 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Welcome, new readers! For more blogging on aviation politics, click here.
First of all, big props to Obama and his campaign team for actually having a transportation agenda [PDF]. The McCain campaign devotes a whole section to manned space exploration but can’t spare a word for aviation. So, to Obama, an A for effort.
Now let’s dig [...]
Liveblogging Randy Babbitt’s confirmation hearing
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, antitrust, congress, dot, faa, general aviation, labor, safety on May 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The Senate Commerce Committee is holding a hearing today to review several nominations in its purview, including FAA administrator-designate J. Randolph Babbitt and DOT deputy secretary-designate John Porcari. Opening statements are going on now. Babbitt is, as you know, the former president of the Air Line Pilots Association and a pilot at Eastern. According to [...]
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