Regulations and Government
AAAE Warns of Looming Extension of FAA Reauthorization
Both sides are working feverishly on the ATC issue, but time is drawing short for completion of the reauthorization bills.

As debate has waged on over the future of the U.S. air traffic control organization, the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) has begun to brace for the increasing possibility of another short-term extension of the FAA’s authorization. The House has made the creation of an independent ATC organization the centerpiece of its multi-year reauthorization bill, and both sides of the ATC issue have been working feverishly to sway undecided lawmakers, to the point that one lobbyist remarked, “It’s a war out there.”


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