Regulations and Government
Chamber of Commerce makes the case for NextGen
While most of the presentations at the U.S.

While most of the presentations at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s annual Aviation Summit were NextGen-centric, chamber president and CEO Tom Donohue joined the chorus of defenders of the Block Aircraft Registration Request (Barr) program, telling a room full of aviation policy leaders that the FAA proposal to stiffen the qualifications for Barr “is an ill-advised populist movement” that “poses a security risk to the users of business aviation and there is no legitimate reason for it.”

He said the U.S. House of Representatives was told as much when the chamber weighed in on FAA reauthorization earlier this year, and the bill that the lower chamber eventually passed blocks the FAA from moving forward with the plan.