Us and Them

FAA'S BLAKEY: "CHANGE IS NEVER EASY"

FAA Administrator Marion Blakey has been spending a lot of time on
Capitol Hill the last few weeks, trying to build support for her new
aviation user-fee funding plan. And she's getting a little tired of
all the criticism it's been getting. "In recent weeks, the rhetoric
about our finance reform bill has become very, shall I say, animated
and aggressive?" she told a meeting of airport executives () on
Tuesday. "It's mighty frustrating ... If the FAA really wanted to kill
GA, as our critics claim, we'd just sit back and do nothing. We'd
leave the air traffic system just the way it is, and let congestion
slowly squeeze them out."
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