In April, the sequester that had flown under the radar for most Americans at last entered the public spotlight. As cuts led to furloughs for air traffic controllers and other FAA personnel, flight delays frustrated passengers across the country....
Congress’ recent action to allow the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to avoid furloughs of air traffic controllers is an indication that the fiscal sequester is starting to bite. Less visible, but no less real, is the harm to our economic...
WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said Monday it was wrong of lawmakers to unanimously pass legislation last month to ease the effects of sequestration on the Federal Aviation Administration, calling it bad policy and "unfair" to all...
Four months after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded the Boeing 787 Dreamliner with an emergency airworthiness directive, United Airlines is putting the fuel-friendly plane back in the air today. The Dreamliner had overheating issues with...
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After four months of being grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing said today that deliveries of its 787 Dreamliner have resumed. The company's new flagship plane was grounded a few months ago, after a...
WASHINGTON – The Federal Aviation Administration will keep open for now the 149 control towers at small airports that were slated to close as the result of governmentwide automatic spending cuts imposed by Congress, the Transportation...
WASHINGTON—According to a new report released Tuesday by the Federal Aviation Administration, Spirit Airlines, the American low-cost air carrier, is the absolute fucking worst and is actually a giant fucking rip-off.
WASHINGTON – Seventy-two airport towers and other air traffic control facilities that were slated to close at night due to budget cuts will get to stay open, the Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday.
The FAA had announced earlier...
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Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., a subsidiary of diversified business conglomerate United Technologies Corp. (UTX), recently received a green flag from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the introduction of the “Rig Approach”...
WASHINGTON -- A government watchdog says the Federal Aviation Administration's oversight of hundreds of domestic and overseas repair stations that service U.S. airliners is ineffective and doesn't target stations mostly likely to present safety...
Earlier this week, Tea Party Patriots described how
President Obama blinked first on the GOP/Democratic showdown
over sequestration’s “cuts” to the Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA). Democrats had hoped the President would insist the...
Jim Harper
Something fishy happened on Friday, and without further action in Congress it should scuttle the legislation to exempt the Federal Aviation Administration from sequestration-based spending limits. But maybe the old saying, “close only...
The Boeing Dreamliner 787 will resume flights at the end of this month after being grounded by the FAA in January when the plane's lithium-ion battery caught fire. Regulators and Boeing are still investigating the source of the problem, looking...
That's Steny Hoyer letting the House have it during the short debate about whether or not the FAA should receive an exemption from the sequester. You go, Steny. I may not agree with you about everything, but I do agree on this.
Just repeal the damn...
I’ve been so dispirited by the way Democrats caved on the FAA “fix” to the sequester bill that I got a fact wrong on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Wednesday morning.Talking about how President Obama’s advisers dismissed the notion of a veto...
I’ve been so dispirited by the way Democrats caved on the FAA “fix” to the sequester bill that I got a fact wrong on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal Wednesday morning.Talking about how President Obama’s advisers dismissed the notion of a veto...
While Congress scrambled to undo sequestration cuts to the Federal Aviation Administration last week after receiving complaints from frustrated travelers, one Republican is shrugging off the impact of the across-the-board cuts in his state: Rep....
President Obama has signed the FAA bill eliminating furloughs that had caused flight delays.
From press secretary Jay Carney:
"On Wednesday, May 1, 2013, the President signed into law:
H.R. 1765, the "Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013," which...
