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REVIEW OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL REFORM PROPOSALS (114–33) HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION FEBRUARY 10, 2016 Printed for the use of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure ( Available online at: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/ committee.action?chamber=house&committee=transportation U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 98–580 PDF WASHINGTON : 2016 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Publishing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate Aug 31 2005 15:58 May 24, 2016 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 P:\HEARINGS\114\FULL\2-10-1~1\98580.TXT JEAN COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE BILL SHUSTER, Pennsylvania, Chairman DON YOUNG, Alaska PETER A. DEFAZIO, Oregon JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR., Tennessee, ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, District of Vice Chair Columbia JOHN L. MICA, Florida JERROLD NADLER, New York FRANK A. LOBIONDO, New Jersey CORRINE BROWN, Florida SAM GRAVES, Missouri EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON, Texas CANDICE S. MILLER, Michigan ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland DUNCAN HUNTER, California RICK LARSEN, Washington ERIC A. ‘‘RICK’’ CRAWFORD, Arkansas MICHAEL E. CAPUANO, Massachusetts LOU BARLETTA, Pennsylvania GRACE F. NAPOLITANO, California BLAKE FARENTHOLD, Texas DANIEL LIPINSKI, Illinois BOB GIBBS, Ohio STEVE COHEN, Tennessee RICHARD L. HANNA, New York ALBIO SIRES, New Jersey DANIEL WEBSTER, Florida DONNA F. EDWARDS, Maryland JEFF DENHAM, California JOHN GARAMENDI, California REID J. RIBBLE, Wisconsin ANDRE´ CARSON, Indiana THOMAS MASSIE, Kentucky JANICE HAHN, California MARK MEADOWS, North Carolina RICHARD M. NOLAN, Minnesota SCOTT PERRY, Pennsylvania ANN KIRKPATRICK, Arizona RODNEY DAVIS, Illinois DINA TITUS, Nevada MARK SANFORD, South Carolina SEAN PATRICK MALONEY, New York ROB WOODALL, Georgia ELIZABETH H. ESTY, Connecticut TODD ROKITA, Indiana LOIS FRANKEL, Florida JOHN KATKO, New York CHERI BUSTOS, Illinois BRIAN BABIN, Texas JARED HUFFMAN, California CRESENT HARDY, Nevada JULIA BROWNLEY, California RYAN A. COSTELLO, Pennsylvania GARRET GRAVES, Louisiana MIMI WALTERS, California BARBARA COMSTOCK, Virginia CARLOS CURBELO, Florida DAVID ROUZER, North Carolina LEE M. ZELDIN, New York MIKE BOST, Illinois (II) VerDate Aug 31 2005 15:58 May 24, 2016 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 P:\HEARINGS\114\FULL\2-10-1~1\98580.TXT JEAN CONTENTS Page Summary of Subject Matter .................................................................................... v TESTIMONY Paul Rinaldi, President, National Air Traffic Controllers Association ............... 11 Nicholas E. Calio, President and Chief Executive Officer, Airlines for Amer- ica .......................................................................................................................... 11 Edward Bolen, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Business Aviation Association ............................................................................................. 11 Robert W. Poole, Jr., Director of Transportation Policy, Reason Foundation .... 11 PREPARED STATEMENTS SUBMITTED BY WITNESSES Paul Rinaldi ............................................................................................................. 69 Nicholas E. Calio ..................................................................................................... 71 Edward Bolen ........................................................................................................... 77 Robert W. Poole, Jr. ................................................................................................. 85 SUBMISSIONS FOR THE RECORD Hon. Bill Shuster, a Representative in Congress from the State of Pennsyl- vania, submission of the following: Letter of February 1, 2016, from Hon. Byron L. Dorgan, U.S. Senator from North Dakota, 1992–2010, et al., to Hon. Bill Shuster, Chairman, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure ..................................... 93 Open letter to Congress of February 8, 2016, from Pete Sepp, President, National Taxpayers Union, et al. ................................................................ 95 Letter to members of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), from Paul Rinaldi, President, and Trish Gilbert, Executive Vice President, NATCA ................................................................................ 98 Letter of February 9, 2016, from Antony Tyler, Director General and CEO, International Air Transport Association, to Hon. Bill Shuster, Chairman, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, et al. ....... 100 Press release of February 3, 2016, ‘‘ATC Modernization Would Move U.S. Into 21st Century,’’ Business Roundtable .......................................... 102 Press release of February 25, 2016, ‘‘SWAPA Urges House Passage of AIRR Act,’’ Southwest Airlines Pilots’ Association .................................... 103 Press release of March 3, 2016, ‘‘Allied Pilots Association Endorses AIRR Act,’’ Allied Pilots Association ...................................................................... 104 Letter of February 10, 2016, from Ronald P. Brower, Corporate Secretary, and Robert E. Tanner, Vice President, Corporate and Government Af- fairs, NetJets Inc., to Hon. Bill Shuster, Chairman, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure .............................................................. 106 Letter of February 8, 2016, from Logistics Supply Chain Coalition, to Hon. Bill Shuster, Chairman, and Hon. Peter A. DeFazio, Ranking Member, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure ..................... 107 Report, ‘‘Air Traffic Control Reform: Frequently Asked Questions/The Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Reauthorization Act Offers Opportu- nities for Needed Modernization,’’ February 9, 2016, by Marc Scribner, Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute ................................................... 108 Hon. Peter A. DeFazio, a Representative in Congress from the State of Or- egon, submission of the following: Letter of February 2, 2016, from Richard H. Anderson, Chief Executive Officer, Delta Air Lines, Inc., to Hon. Bill Shuster, Chairman, and Hon. Peter A. DeFazio, Ranking Member, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure ........................................................................................ 114 Statement for the record from Experimental Aircraft Association .............. 120 (III) VerDate Aug 31 2005 15:58 May 24, 2016 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 P:\HEARINGS\114\FULL\2-10-1~1\98580.TXT JEAN IV Page Hon. Peter A. DeFazio, a Representative in Congress from the State of Or- egon, submission of the following—Continued Statement for the record from Thomas L. Hendricks, President and CEO, National Air Transportation Association .................................................... 138 Letter of February 1, 2016, from Hon. Harold Rogers, Chairman, House Committee on Appropriations, et al., to Hon. Paul D. Ryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives, et al. ........................................................ 143 Letter of January 27, 2016, from Hon. Thad Cochran, Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations, et al., to Hon. John Thune, Chairman, and Hon. Bill Nelson, Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Com- merce, Science, and Transportation ............................................................ 145 Petition by Americans Against Air Traffic Privatization, ‘‘Signature Need- ed: Tell Congress Not To Privatize Our Air Traffic Control System’’ ....... 147 Press release of February 3, 2016, ‘‘ALPA Calls Proposed FAA Reauthor- ization Bill Unsafe and Unfair,’’ Air Line Pilots Association, Inter- national .......................................................................................................... 149 Letter of June 24, 2015, from Scott Frey, Director of Federal Government Affairs, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employ- ees, AFL–CIO ................................................................................................ 151 Letter of April 22, 2015, from J. David Cox, Sr., National President, American Federation of Government Employees, et al., to Hon. Bill Shuster, Chairman, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, et al. ............................................................................................................... 152 Press release of February 3, 2016, ‘‘Regional Airline Association State- ment on the Introduction of the Aviation Innovation, Reform, and Re- authorization (AIRR) Act,’’ Regional Airline Association .......................... 154 Letter of February 5, 2016, from Donald Cohen, Executive Director, In the Public Interest, et al., to Hon. Paul D. Ryan, Speaker of the House of Representatives, et al. .................................................................. 155 Report, ‘‘Pitfalls of Air Traffic Control Privatization,’’ February 2003, by Professor Elliott Sclar, Columbia University and The HDR Manage- ment Consulting Group ................................................................................ 157 Report to Hon. Peter A. DeFazio, Ranking Member, Committee on Trans- portation and Infrastructure, and Hon. Rick Larsen, Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Aviation, ‘‘Federal Aviation Administration: Prelimi- nary Observations of Potential Air Traffic Control Restructuring Tran- sition Issues,’’ February