RAA’s policy influence cuts across sector lines
Five years as an association president might seem like a modest stint to some, but Debby McElroy has seen enough in her tenure at the RAA to last a lifetim

Five years as an association president might seem like a modest stint to some, but Debby McElroy has seen enough in her tenure at the RAA to last a lifetime. To watch an industry that just a half decade ago accounted for one in nine domestic flights grow to seize a quarter of all scheduled traffic must all seem a bit surreal, but as McElroy learned during her 17 years with the association, from adversity often comes opportunity, and nowhere has that proved more true than in the regional airline business.