FAA Reforms
Your editorial “Fussing with the FAA” (April 24) is totally inaccurate on one critically important point. You claim that the President’s Aviation Safety Commission’s “most important recommendation is to pull airline regulation not only out of the federal Transportation Department but out of government altogether.”
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The Aviation Safety Commission, which issued its report on April 18, recommended that the FAA be separated from the Department of Transportation but remain a federal agency. Furthermore, in a number of key areas, the commission recommended toughening federal safety regulations.
The point is not to remove the FAA from government, but to reform it so that--as a federal agency--it can function more efficiently.
GABRIEL PHILLIPS
Executive Vice President
Air Transport Assn. of America
Washington, D.C.
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