The exclusive bi-monthly magazine covering the news and activities of the Regional Airline Association September/October 2009 Issue 38 Available on the RAA website www.raa.org PRESIDENT’S CORNER Boyd releases fleet forecast and warns of slow recovery Airlines can expect a very slow recovery with continued declines expected through 2010, Mike Boyd of Boyd Group International opines, underlining demand will return far faster than capacity. Total global demand between 2010-2019 is for 12,487 airliners with China, the number two global market, By now, the 2009 Annual Report needing 3,282 new aircraft. (See has reached your desk. If you’re chart on page 5) Speaking at his “old school” like me, you’re licking 14th Annual Aviation Summit in your fingers and flipping through Lexington, KY, Boyd notes the wid- the pages of current and his- ened performance envelopes of new torical industry statistics, as well airlines is causing “category overlap” as contact information for our 31 and replacement equipment will be (Left to right) Delta Air Lines Senior VP Don Bornhorst, RAA President Roger Cohen, Great Lakes Airlines CEO Chuck Howell and Boyd Group International SVP Tim Sieber member airlines and 280 associate needed between 2010-2013. While engage in a fireside chat on “Keeping America Air-Connected the Challenges of Con- members. Or you can do it just as turboprops will grow in demand, necting Communities to the Global Economy” e-easy at www.raa.org >>5 But here’s what you won’t find in the 2009 Annual Report… House approves Airline Pilot Training Most importantly, the facts about our member airlines’ total and Safety Act commitment to safety. All RAA With an unprecedented 409-11 airline to access those records. The with ATA and other airline groups, members responded fully and on- vote, the House approved the Airline most controversial provision — the University Aviation Association, time to the FAA’s “Call to Action”, Pilot Training and Safety Act (HR requiring all flight crew members to and training providers to further and as we testified in Congress, 3371). The 51-page measure covers possess an ATP and have a minimum try to improve the measure in the RAA member airlines carrying a range of issues — many of which 1500 hours within three years after Senate. The FAA reauthorization/ 98 percent of regional airline pas- are already being pursued by FAA, the bill’s enactment — was mitigated safety package, which at this point sengers have either established or individual airlines and the RAA somewhat by creating an expert does not include the 1500 hour/ATP committed to both a Flight Opera- Strategic Safety Initiative — includ- panel (to include airline and uni- language, is held up in Finance Com- tions Quality Assurance (FOQA) ing the association’s call for a single versity/flight school reps) to review mittee and at presstime was unclear program and an Aviation Safety database and 10-year look back training requirements and now will as to when the full Senate may take Action Program (ASAP). of pilot records. 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RAA Fall Meeting Hilton Embassy Row Washington, DC Schedule of Events (tentative) Monday, November 9 1200 noon – 5:00 pm Registration Open Ambassador Foyer – Name Badges sponsored by NAASCO FAA Administrator Randy 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Safety Directors Meeting Babbitt will be the featured Boardroom speaker at the RAA Annual Fall 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm Regional Operations Council Meeting. He will address the Consulate Ballroom Presidents Council Luncheon on 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm ROC & Safety Directors’ Reception Tuesday, November 10, as well Ambassador Room as spend 30 minutes with airline CEOs during a private question Tuesday, November 10 and answer period. 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Registration Open Randy Babbitt was sworn in as the Ambassador Foyer – Name Badges sponsored by NAASCO FAA’s 16th administrator on June 1. Babbitt comes to the FAA from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Safety Directors Meeting Oliver Wyman, an international Boardroom management consulting firm where Coffee will be served in the morning he served as partner. 9:30 am – 5:00 pm ROC Meeting A veteran pilot and internation- Consulate Room Coffee will be served in the morning ally recognized expert in aviation and labor relations, Babbitt is no 12:00 noon – 1:30 pm Presidents Council Luncheon stranger to the FAA. He has been a Guest Speaker: FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt member of the agency’s Manage- Ambassador Room ment Advisory Council since 2001. Sponsored by ATR North America In that capacity, he provided guid- 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Private CEO Meeting with Administrator Babbitt ance to the FAA Administrator on Lincoln Room a variety of topics, ranging from air 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm RAA Board & Presidents’ Council Meeting traffic modernization to regulatory (Open to RAA Member Airline CEOs only) policy. He was chairman of the Ambassador Room council from 2004-06. Break sponsored by LodgeX Solutions He also was appointed by DOT 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Associate Member Council Meeting Secretary Mary Peters to be a mem- Lincoln Room ber of a special Internal Review Team 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Industry Reception to assess safety oversight within Ambassador/Consulate Ballroom the airline industry and the FAA. Sponsored by GECAS Babbitt had been the founding partner of Eclat Consulting, a Wednesday, November 11 highly successful aviation firm, in 7:30 am – 10:00 am Registration Open 2001 and was the President and Ambassador Foyer – Name Badges sponsored by NAASCO CEO until Eclat was acquired by Oliver Wyman in 2007. 8:00 am – 9:00 am Breakfast Open to all attendees Babbitt began his aviation career as Sponsored by Rockwell Collins a pilot, flying 25 years for Eastern Airlines. 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