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Ari Blaff writes for National Review Online about another piece of bad news for the U.S. transportation secretary. The Department of Transportation (DOT) announced on Monday afternoon that it will…
The FAA experienced an unpreceded outage Wednesday morning, delaying or canceling flights throughout the country. Though the White House has reported that a cyber-attack is not suspected, it does raise…
Economist John Cochrane starts a recent blogpost by quoting a comment about the cost of regulation that appeared at Marginal Revolution (another economics blog). Here are some excerpts: From my time in…
Why is the FAA standing in the way of expanding access to lower-cost flights? For decades, passengers would look at flight plans posted on corkboards at airports to find a…
Thomas Donlan of Barron’s explains how two noted economists might have responded to the current United Airlines controversy. If Alfred E. Kahn and Julian Simon were alive today, they would…
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online focuses on a larger problem linked to the recent slowdown at American airports. The United States is suffering an air-travel meltdown as the TSA…
Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute considers the likely long-term benefits of reforming the federal government’s air traffic control system. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) operates the nation’s air traffic…
Answer: Register their toys. The FAA must register hobby drones. We are told it will keep us safe.
The City of Asheville is contracting with the FAA for a grant for runway construction at the Asheville Regional Airport. As with a former contract, the language in Section 18…
You might not expect the head of the Competitive Enterprise Institute to support an increase in the maximum passenger facility charge levied at American airports. But Lawson Bader explains in…
The City of Asheville and Buncombe County want to accept $2,562,954 from the FAA for a fire station at the airport. The new objective is to help put out airplane…
Or to be exact, bans the use of the Charlotte Douglas International Airport’s crosswind runaway — Runway 5/23 — during most operations. If you’ve ever flown into the airport from…