The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has forcefully\nchallenged a DC-based think tank\u2019s study for promoting a misleading caricature\nof business aviation that ignores the sector\u2019s sustainability leadership and\nthe industry\u2019s essential role in the nation\u2019s economy and transportation\nsystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The report, released by the partisan, Washington, DC-based\nInstitute for Policy Studies, omits key information about the game-changing\ninnovations that continually lower the carbon footprint for business aviation,\nand overlooks independent survey data that provides a true representation of\nthe industry as one comprised mostly of small and mid-size companies, flying\nlargely to communities lacking airline service, typically with mid-level\nemployees aboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The association said that included among the countless\ncompanies fitting this description are those like the Pullman, WA-based company\nthat uses a business airplane to monitor key installations providing power to\nthe region\u2019s electric grid; the Minnesota-based frozen-food company that flies\na turboprop aircraft to reach distribution centers in small towns across the\nU.S. and the Phoenix, AZ-based medical company whose airplanes transport\ndoctors to patients in isolated rural areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFurther, the report pointedly minimizes the industry\u2019s legacy of achievements in sustainable flight,\u201d including lightweight composites, winglets and satellite-based avionics, as well as business aviation\u2019s growing use of sustainable aviation fuels shown to reduce aviation carbon emissions by as much as 80% \u2013 all of which are key to the industry\u2019s goal of achieving net-zero emissions from business aircraft by 2050<\/a>, NBAA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a final deceptive claim, the study suggests dramatic\nhikes in costs for those relying on business aviation to operate in the\nnation\u2019s air transportation system, looking past the reality \u2013 as noted by no\nless an authority than the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) \u2013\nthat the system\u2019s costs are largely driven by the operations of commercial\nairlines, given the scale and complexity of the carriers\u2019 hub-and-spoke\noperations. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has long used the same\neconomist-accepted cost-allocation methodology to reach the same conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUnsurprisingly, the report provides none of this\ninformation, instead falling back on the tired practice of disparaging an\nentire industry to sound a predictable call for a raft of punitive taxes, fees\nand regulations disguised as \u2018proposals,\u2019\u201d the association noted. \u201cRather than\nbeing distracted by the overheated rhetoric the report offers in support of\nthis agenda, NBAA urges an honest discussion of business aviation\u2019s societal\nbenefits and environmental leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read the IPS report<\/a>, and NBAA\u2019s full response: \u201cNBAA Challenges DC Think Tanks\u2019 Deeply Flawed \u2018Study\u2019<\/a> About Business Aviation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has forcefully challenged a DC-based think tank\u2019s study for promoting a misleading caricature of business aviation that ignores the sector\u2019s sustainability leadership and the industry\u2019s essential role in the nation\u2019s economy and transportation system. The report, released by the partisan, Washington, DC-based Institute for Policy Studies, omits key information […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25514,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25513\/revisions\/25514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}