Prior FAA Admin Hopeful For Reauthorization

By Madhu Unnikrishnan

A former FAA administrator says the make-up of the next Congress will greatly increase the odds of the agency’s reauthorization bill passing.

“I’m more hopeful than I have been,” says Marion Blakey, president of the Aerospace Industries Association and FAA administrator from 2002-2007. The change in the House could result in the passage of a more “streamlined bill,” ...

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