Embattled Business Aviation Industry Fights On
During the NBAA Convention opening session, NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen highlighted what the organization is doing to win the war and he cataloged recent victories won despite the gridlock in Congress.
During the NBAA Convention opening session, NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen highlighted what the organization is doing to win the war and he cataloged recent victories won despite the gridlock in Congress.

“I wish I could tell you the war [of battling business aviation foes in Washington] is over, but all I can tell you is there’s a slight ceasefire,” Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation Committee, said this morning at the opening session at the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Fla. “Some people just don’t get it that business aviation is one of the great economic engines of our economy and of a free-enterprise system.”