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(NewsNation) — Aviation manufacture stakeholders volition talk earlier a House subcommittee connected Wednesday astir the archetypal twelvemonth nether standards established by the Federal Aviation Administration.
The Reauthorization Act of 2024, signed into instrumentality past May, efficaciously outlined the modernization of the national airspace system, ordered higher air postulation control hiring limits and acceptable a five-year backing plan for the medication and its programs — up to $105.5 billion, a 9% summation from the erstwhile law.
Industry leaders are expected to stock their perspectives connected the law's execution truthful acold successful a proceeding earlier the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee connected Aviation.
Expected witnesses include:
- Darren Pleasance, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association president and CEO
- Edward Bolen, National Business Aviation Association president and CEO
- Capt. Jody Reven, Southwest Airlines Pilots Association president
- Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants planetary president
Transportation caput wants to overhaul FAA
The FAA has faced fierce disapproval amid a perceived increase successful aviation incidents, air postulation power staffing shortages, firings from the Trump administration and widespread tech issues.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's 2026 fund request seeks $26.7 cardinal to overhaul the national agency. That's an further $1.5 billion, a 5.8% increase, compared to the 2025 fiscal year's budget.
That includes a $1.2 cardinal summation for aerial postulation modernization and operations, $596 cardinal to ramp up our larboard and shipyard infrastructure, a $400 cardinal boost for freight obstruction information and $770 cardinal for multimodal freight expansion.
In May, Duffy promised to "work with Congress, get the wealth and statesman to physique a brand-new strategy arsenic rapidly arsenic possible."
NewsNation's Xavier Walton contributed to this report.
