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Business Aviation Leaders Testify Before Congress on User Fees

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Key Takeaways:

  • The Obama Administration consistently proposes aviation user fees, despite strong opposition from the aviation industry and lukewarm support from the FAA.
  • General aviation (GA) industry groups and business owners testified before a House committee, warning that per-flight user fees would be devastating, onerous, and destroy the struggling GA sector.
  • Key representatives from NBAA, NATA, and AOPA unanimously voiced their opposition, asserting that user fees are "bad policy" and detrimental to GA.
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With the aviation industry in agreement that user fees are a bad idea, the proposal nonetheless keeps getting floated by the Obama Administration, even despite tepid support for the concept from the leaders at the FAA.

On Wednesday, the alphabet groups had their day before Representative Sam Graves’ House small business committee, where business owners who operate airplanes testified about just how devastating a blow to GA a per-flight user fee model would be.

Isabel Goyer

A commercial pilot, Isabel Goyer has been flying for more than 40 years, with hundreds of different aircraft in her logbook and thousands of hours. An award-winning aviation writer, photographer and editor, Ms. Goyer led teams at Sport Pilot, Air Progress and Flying before coming to Plane & Pilot in 2015.

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