Lawmakers returned their focus to workforce issues, calling the anticipated shortfalls one of the critical bottlenecks for the future growth of the industry. Holding a hearing on the issue last week on the heels of the recently passed FAA reauthorization bill, House aviation subcommittee Chair Garret Graves (R-Louisiana) noted that the comprehensive aviation package addresses many aspects surrounding the issue “either by giving the FAA a path forward to fix these issues or by giving certainty to the industry to help to address some of these choke points and growing demands.”
However, he said, “We cannot rest on our laurels. We’ve got to focus on implementation. We need to focus on this explosive growth of this really exciting industry in aviation…We need to be concerned not just about the stresses in the aerospace industry today, but the reality that these stressors are going to grow greater and greater in the future.”
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