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AIN Blog: President’s Bizav Blast Affects Entire Industry
Just days after commending President Obama for his June 28 visit to an Alcoa plant in Davenport, Iowa, Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) president and

Just days after commending President Obama for his June 28 visit to an Alcoa plant in Davenport, Iowa, Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) president and CEO Marion Blakey found his next day broadside against business aviation “baffling and disturbing.”

In a speech to the Washington Aero Club on June 30, she pointed out that the President had praised Alcoa workers for making the wings of Air Force One–“the biggest corporate jet in America, by the way,” she added–and he said that “almost every airplane in the world has some kind of Alcoa product in it.”