Letter From NATA President James K. Coyne To President Obama
[Link: www.nata.aero...]
Letter from the President of the National Air Transportation Association to Obama.
Dear President Barack Obama:
At a White House gathering this week you spoke about your helicopter, Marine One, as a new experience. I’m sure you’re also learning to appreciate Air Force One and have already become very familiar with all the benefits of personal (or what some call ‘general,’ ‘private,’ or ‘business’) aviation during the campaign. The President of the United States is literally the most important consumer of personal aviation in the world, and the nation’s private air transportation system supports your activities with fuel, facilities, equipment, maintenance, training and the highest level of professional service at hundreds of airports around the country every year. In addition, the taxpayers spend over a million dollars per flight hour to give you and your family a level of personal aviation that no one else in the world is privileged to experience.
Personal aviation is something very special – but the industry that makes this all possible is under attack and may soon face economic collapse. Tens of thousands of jobs have already been shed and the industry is in a tailspin. What threatens these world-class American businesses most of all, you ask? The statements and actions produced by the Administration and Congress since you were elected have been, I believe, unintentionally catastrophic………..
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