Airport and Commercial Airline operations are increasing public health and safety risks! However, Minnesota and President Trump stepped back. This clearly raises a variety of issues: Local, State, and Federal policies and budgets define revenue sources separately. Management depends on the class (Private, Commercial, or Military)
Federal Agencies: FAA, NTSB, and NAS budgets and employees have been arbitrarily reduced. In particular. Air Traffic Control is challenged by route and schedule changes. After the 2008 recession, major airlines operate or contract collector airlines to meet larger, long-haul flights at hub airports. The results were busier peak hours, straining both airport arrival and departure and enroute National Airspace System air traffic control communication capacity. Reducing air traffic controllers is sure as hell a high safety risk.
The biennial FAA, EPA, NTSB, State Department, TSA and other Re-Authorizations are complex, political, and related. Begun in the U.S. House of Representatives, projects and appropriations are managed widely because both schedules and needs are very often several years of work and start up as the plans change. (Example: MAC and Airlines argued with FAA and NTSB for 9 years over safe hourly rate of MSP operations. The result now impacts airspace and airport operations of many kinds, including ceilings for circular training flights and remote ATC far side MAC responsibility. FAA Controllers manage, for example, evening arrivals and departures at St. Cloud Airport.}
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