ALPA has commended the Federal Aviation Administration’s issuance of a final rule pertaining to the implementation of secondary barriers. The term secondary barriers pertains to redundant means by which to block entrance to aircraft flight-decks, thereby diminishing the likelihood of unauthorized persons—primarily, hijackers—gaining access thereto.
The Regional Airline Association (RAA)—a trade association representing 17 North American regional airlines and 280 associate, non-airline members—has applauded the U.S. House of Representatives’ Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s unanimous vote to advance 2023’s FAA reauthorization bill—known in Capitol Hill’s grandiloquent argot as The Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act. RAA president and CEO Faye Malarkey Black offered the following statement ...
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