Shaffer Working on Multiple Fronts to Support Airports

摘要

It is a unique opportunity for me to return to the top FAA position responsible for advocating, regulating and building to secure the future of our nation's airports. All of us in the aviation industry understand the critical necessity of expanding and maintaining airports of all sizes. Now, we not only have a U.S. president and secretary of transportation who understand that need and talk about it frequently, but we also have a Congress enacting the first long-term authorization of the FAA since 1982 and appropriating an additional $1.5 billion in discretionary funds out of the General Fund (not the Trust Fund) and prioritizing small hubs, non-hubs and non-primary airports. NBAA members are already seeing major improvements at these airports, which are critical to business aviation and other important services. Who wouldn't want to come back to this job at such a critical time?