Review a sample of the coalition letter.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n“The public charter industry provides much needed\nservice to smaller underserved communities,” the coalition said.\n“This service would be severely disrupted and entire communities deprived\nof air service if a wholesale revision of the regulations were made by\nCongress, as some opponents of the Part 135\/Part 380 business model urge.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“For example, the evolution of commercial air\ntransportation – particularly with respect to vertical take-off and landing\naircraft, hybrid and all-electric flight, and advanced air mobility operations\n– depends on Part 135 for commercial success,” the letter stated.\n“Swift regulatory change, without research, data or stakeholder input\ncould negatively impact promising new technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We respectfully ask Congress to allow DOT to\nindependently resolve the application and reject any legislative attempts to\ninterfere,” the letter concluded. “Doing so will protect service to\nsmall communities and promising new technologies.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to NBAA, other signatories included the Airline\nPassenger Experience Association (APEX); Helicopter Association International\n(HAI); the International Flight Services Association (IFSA); the National Air\nCarrier Association (NACA); and the National Air Transportation Association\n(NATA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A coalition of industry groups, including the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), joined today in cautioning leaders in the White House, Congress, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) about inaccurate characterizations of Part 135 air carriers that conduct public charter flights under DOT Part 380 regulations and provide vital air […]<\/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-26029","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\/26029","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=26029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26030,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26029\/revisions\/26030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}