Issues & Modes / Aviation
DOT General Counsel Letter to Senator Cruz re Phil Washington – March 9 2023
Mar 10, 2023 | Jeff DavisThis is a PDF copy of a March 9, 2023 letter from Department of Transportation General Counsel John Putnam to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)...
FAA Under Fire For Recent Close Calls Between Planes
Mar 08, 2023 | Jeff DavisJeff Davis explains to CNN the intricacies of the FAA, and what it means for fliers in 2023.
FAA Hearing Shows Contentious Opposition to Nominee
Mar 03, 2023 | Jeff DavisPresident Biden's nominee to run the Federal Aviation Administration, Phil Washington, came under intense criticism from Sen. Ted Cruz...
ETW Editorial: Release the OLC Opinion, ASAP
Mar 03, 2023 | Jeff DavisPresident Biden's nomination of Phil Washington to head the Federal Aviation Administration is taking criticism on two separate tracks....
New Report Urges Reform of Spectrum-Allocation Process
Feb 28, 2023 | Robert Puentes“While the immediate crisis was averted, it exposed critical and interrelated gaps and failures in the process and policies used for...
Filling Gaps in US Spectrum Allocation: Reforms for Collaborative Management
Feb 27, 2023 | Joe Kane, Garett Shrode, Jessica Dine, Robert PuentesElectromagnetic spectrum is the range of radiation energy that carries everything from visible light to X-rays, microwaves, and gamma...
Phil Washington Will Finally Get A Hearing – But Will He Be Asked to Give Up Army Pension?
Feb 24, 2023 | Jeff DavisThe Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation has finally scheduled a confirmation hearing for Phil Washington's nomination to run...
House T&I Holds Wide-Ranging Aviation Hearing
Feb 10, 2023 | Robert PuentesOn Tuesday, February 7, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a broad hearing on aviation as a first step in the...
Senate Panel Looks At Last Christmas’s Southwest Meltdown
Feb 10, 2023 | Jeff DavisWhen Southwest Airlines was having its epic meltdown of flight cancelations during the peak Christmas 2022 flight period, Senate...
Biden May Call Out Airlines, Tout Infrastructure Funding at SOTU
Feb 06, 2023 | Jeff DavisJeff Davis, senior fellow at think-tank Eno Center for Transportation, said that 2023 was already scheduled to be the “year of...
Guest Op-Ed: Increasingly Autonomous Flight and Operations: Airspace Integration Considerations
Feb 03, 2023 | Parimal KopardekarThere is much interest in autonomous systems and their operations in the national airspace system. When it comes to autonomous systems,...
From Washington: President Biden’s Pick For New Chief Of Staff
Jan 28, 2023 | Robert PuentesPresident and CEO of Eno Center for Transportation and Brookings Metro Non-Resident Senior Fellow Robert Puentes discusses the current...