Prior to the 2000--01 recession and Sept. 11 our civil aviation system was speeding toward paralysis.
"The deadline was necessary to ensure the security of our aviation system, and it still is, " he said.
The fact is that business aircraft operators already pay taxes to support the aviation system, every time they buy fuel.
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Furthermore, Bush said he was signing an executive order Tuesday that would make modernizing the aviation system a "priority" for federal agencies.
Kennedy airport, Miami International or a few others, you, indeed, are feeling the first impacts of the spending cuts on the aviation system.
However, you do not recognise the efforts of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to provide the necessary and deserved investment for our nation's aviation system.
"Modernizing our aviation system is an urgent challenge, " he said.
As the economy and passenger usage recover, as they eventually will, America's civil aviation system will once more be as dysfunctional as it was before this year's economic slowdown.
As the economy and passenger usage recover, as they eventually will, our civil aviation system will once more be as dysfunctional as it was before this year's economic slowdown.
The aviation trust fund is made up exclusively of aviation user fees that are required to be used for the improvement of the safety and efficiency of the aviation system.
"Continued prohibition of these items is an integral layer in making our aviation system secure and must remain in place, " the Coalition of Flight Attendant Unions said in a statement.
In fact, while employees are being furloughed across the federal government, the aviation system is unusually visible, said Paul S. Hudson, the president of FlyersRights.org, the largest airline passenger organization.
"Continued prohibition of these items is an integral layer in making our aviation system secure and must remain in place, " according to a statement by the Coalition of Flight Attendant Unions.
For more than a decade the FAA has promised to modernize and make the civil aviation system more efficient and reliable, but the only things it has reliably generated are delays or cost overruns or usually both.
Failing to appreciate how greatly the ebb and flow of commerce depends upon an efficient and safe aviation system, and possibly insensitive to the aggressive competition from foreign aerospace manufacturers seeking advances in ATC modernization, they argue there are more pressing problems that demand attention and dollars.
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"There's very little we can do to mitigate it because the procedures we use to clear passengers and cargo, they're responsible I think for the fact that we have a very safe aviation system and we have a very good land migration system where we know who's coming into the country, " she said.
As a marginal user of an existing infrastructure, Business Aviation enables the ATC system to be more productive and more valuable to our nation.
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Earlier testing also revealed problems with a Federal Aviation Administration ground-proximity warning system.
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So the world's aviation authorities are seeking to modernise the whole system, streamlining the routing of flights and providing much more real-time information to pilots and controllers.
Mr. Cote is a longtime advocate of modernizing the Federal Aviation Administration's air-traffic control system, and has told industry officials heexpects to play an important role in devising ways to help airlines finance improvements.
Laser event reports have increased steadily since 2005, when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) created a formal reporting system to collect information from pilots.
In a large-scale experiment overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration , UPS is installing a computer navigation system on all 107 of its Boeing 757s and 767s that allows pilots to "see" other jets without radar.
Of course, a great leap toward alleviating our aggravating air travel experiences would be to remove the air traffic control (ATC) system from the auspices of the Federal Aviation Administration (safety oversight would remain with the government).
In 1985 it bought a small Salem, Oregon, aviation technology company, mainly to develop its package-tracking system.
Last week, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration cleared Boeing to make fixes to the problematic battery system.
In a statement Monday, United said the system migration was the single largest technology conversion in aviation history.
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