Finance, Taxes, Insurance
ATOS, CSET tax airlines and FAA to limits
By just about anyone’s reckoning the FAA audit process known as the Air Transport Oversight System (ATOS) has turned into a horribly labor-intensive and ti

By just about anyone’s reckoning the FAA audit process known as the Air Transport Oversight System (ATOS) has turned into a horribly labor-intensive and time-consuming job. Now, as the agency’s flight standards office loses about 250 employees a year to budget cuts, the onus has fallen squarely on the nation’s regional airlines to pay the bill. The daily disruption has become a fact of life for the five regional airlines picked as the first to undergo the process. At this point, operators can only hope that industry can come up with some ideas to streamline ATOS or expect to spend as many as five years to finish it.