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FAA sued over Airport Control Towers
This post FAA sued over Airport Control Towers originally appeared on Truth About Bills
Last month the FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, made the decision to close 149 contract airport control towers due to sequestration. Now at least 14 jurisdictions have filed lawsuits against the FAA in hopes of overturning the decision made last month.
Many of the lawsuits argue that the FAA’s decision violates safety provision in federal law. The first suits were brought separately by authorities at small- and medium-sized feeder-route airports in Spokane, WA., Naples, FL., and Bloomington, IL. This is what Spencer Dickerson, president of the American Association of Airport Executives and the U.S. Contract Tower Association had to say:
We welcome any and all efforts to reverse the FAA’s decision both in federal courts and on Capitol Hill. We’re profoundly disappointed because this is clearly an administration and White House-driven decision to make control towers the poster child of sequestration, to make it very visible and very painful to the American people. Aviation should not be a political pawn.
The FAA has not yet issued a statement about the lawsuits. On March 27, they issued detailed guidance for smaller airports on how to safely make the needed adjustments.
Source: Government Executive
This post FAA sued over Airport Control Towers originally appeared on Truth About Bills
2013-04-02 06:47:32
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