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Residents of Eastern Long Island are awaiting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Final Rule regarding the New York North Shore Helicopter Route. If the Final Rule tracks the FAA’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), helicopters flying along Long Island’s northern...
November 25, 2009 - Aviation and Airport Development Updates
A summary review of Aviation and Airport Development related news and information that was made public during the past week. Trisha Ton-Nu also contributed to this post. If you would like to receive this update in an e-mail delivered to...
On Tuesday, November 17, 2009, Chevalier, Allen & Lichman filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of its client County of Delaware, Pennsylvania (“Delaware”). The Petition asks the Court to reverse...
It is Official! The FAA Rescinds Slot Auction Rule
The Federal Aviation Administration has officially rescinded its controversial plan to enact mandatory slot auctions on LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark airports. See 74 Fed. Reg. 52,132 (Oct. 9, 2009) (LaGuardia) and 74 Fed. Reg. 52,134 (Oct. 9, 2009) (JFK...
Aviation and Airport Development Updates
A summary review of Aviation and Airport Development related news and information that was made public during the past week. FAA Administrator Babbitt’s Pilot Fatigue Advisory Committee delivers its recommendations. An advisory committee on pilot fatigue,convened by Administrator Babbitt, delivered...
Three Petitions for Rehearing Filed in Airspace Redesign Matter
Several groups. individuals, cities, and counties who petitioned the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to review the FAA's decision to move forward with its redesign of the New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania airspace have filed Petitions for...
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Decides Against Challenge to East Coast Airspace Redesign
In a per curiam Abbreviated Disposition that will not be published, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit summarily denied 12 separately-filed petitions for review that questioned the legality of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Environmental Impact...
The FAA, on June 5, 2009, issued two Notices of Order to Show Cause requesting "the views of interested persons on the FAA's tentative determination to extend through October 30, 2010, the January 15, 2008, order limiting the number of...
East Coast Airspace Redesign Challenge Heard at D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals
A multi-year challenge to the Federal Aviation Administration’s reorganization of the airspace in four East Coast states culminated on May 11, 2009 with oral argument at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals before Chief Judge David Sentelle, and Judges Douglas...
FAA Proposes Rescission of Congestion Management Rules for JFK, LaGuardia and Newark
The Federal Aviation Administration today proposed to rescind the congestion management rules for JFK, LaGuardia and Newark that would have created auctions for slots at those airports. (Click here for the JFK and Newark proposal, click here for the LaGuardia...
Petitioners File Reply Brief in East Airspace Redesign Case
On Friday, March 6, 2009, the Joint Petitioners in the East Coast Airspace Redesign case now pending in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, filed their Reply Brief, arguing that the FAA failed to comply with 4(f) of the Department...
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Petition for Review of FAA's "Presumed to Conform" Rule
On February 3, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied a petition for review of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) “presumed to conform rule.” 72 Fed.Reg. 41565 (July 30, 2007). Under the “presumed to...
FAA Files Its Brief In The East Coast Airspace Redesign Lawsuit
After several months of delays, the FAA filed its Brief for Federal Respondents in the East Coast Airspace Redesign case that is pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. As expected, the brief alleges...
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Stays Slot Auctions at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted a stay of the slot auctions that were scheduled to take place on January 12, 2009, pending arguments on whether the FAA has the legal authority to auction...
President Bush Issues Executive Order Pushing NextGen Forward
In a speech given yesterday to the Department of Transportation, President Bush stated that in: an age when teenage drivers use GPS systems in their cars, air traffic controllers still use World War II-era radar to guide modern jumbo jets....
FAA's 2009-2013 Flight Plan Includes 5 More Airports Due for an Airspace Redesign
On October 28, 2008, Acting FAA Administrator Bobby Sturgell rolled out the FAA's 2009-20013 "Flight Plan" at a speech in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The "Flight Plan," in which FAA sets goals for itself, is "the strategic plan for the agency,...
GAO Declares FAA Does Not Have Legal Authority to Auction Slots
The GAO, in a legal opinion issued September 30, 2008, declared that "FAA currently lacks the authority to auction arrival and departure slots, and thus also lacks authority to retain and use auction proceeds." This legal opinion came as a...
The "Tragedy of the Commons" and Airport Congestion Management
In 1968, Garrett Hardin, a professor of Human Ecology at University of California at Santa Barbara, wrote an influential article for the journal Science that described a dilemma in which multiple individuals acting independently in their own self-interest can ultimately...
New Jersey Attorney General Files Amicus Brief in Airspace Redesign Litigation
On September 10, 2008, Anne Milgram, the New Jersey Attorney General filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the Petitioners in the Airspace Redesign litigation currently pending in Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In it,...
Sens. Specter and Dodd file a Joint Amicus Brief in East Coast Airspace Redesign Litigation
Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) filed a amicus curiae brief on Friday, September 5, 2008. The Brief makes three arguments: how the FAA did not give appropriate weight to noise reduction in balancing the alternatives for...
GAO Issues Report On The FAA's East Coast Airspace Redesign
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued its long awaited "FAA Airspace Redesign: An Analysis of the New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania Project." Although the GAO promised to publish the report by August 1, 2008, it waited until the same day the...
FAA Suspends Auction of Flight Slot at Newark Airport
It is being reported by several news outlets that the FAA has suspended its auction of flight slots at Newark Airport. The auction was slated for September 3, 2008. According to Bloomberg News the Order, issued by FAA Chief Counsel,...
FAA's Presumed to Conform Rule Will Affect Communities Around Airports
In February, 2007, almost as an after-thought, theFAA included changes to air traffic control procedures to its Presumed to Conform rule. This last minute addition has the potential to seriously impact communities around the airports where these changes to air...
During July, the Government Accounting Office issued several reports regarding various aviation topics. One of the topics not covered was the East Coast Airspace Redesign, which was supposed to be issued at the end of July, but now probably will...
FAA Issues "Written Re-Evaluation" of East Coast Airspace Redesign Record of Decision
In a rather odd, unusual statement, the FAA issued on July 31, 2008, a "Record of Decision and Written Re-Evaluation of the New York\New Jersey\Philadelphia Metropolitan Area Airspace Redesign Final Environmental Impact Statement." In response to several requests for supplemental...
FAA Proposes Congestion Management Rule for JFK and Newark Liberty
In the May 21, 2008, issue of the Federal Register, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed a new rule affecting two airports that are a part of the East Coast Airspace Redesign. The FAA proposes to establish procedures to address...
Update on East Coat Airspace Redesign Litigation
As is well known, the FAA's Record of Decision on September 5, 2007 (and subsequently amended on October 5, 2007) regarding the NY/NJ/PA Airspace Redesign generated a host of litigation. Twelve Petitions for Review were filed in three different Federal...
FAA's Response to Congress: You Want Safety? We'll Give You Safety!
The Federal Aviation Administration’s recent paroxysm of safety concern-- forcing airlines to immediately cancel thousands of MD-80 flights because of a 1/4 inch deviation in the location of an electrical bundle in the wheel well -- reveals at least two...
Airspace Redesign May Not Decrease Fuel Consumption For The Airlines As The FAA Claims
In both the Record of Decision (ROD) and the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the New York/New Jersey/Philadelphia Airspace Redesign, the FAA states that there will be a decrease in emissions from aircraft as a result of the airspace...
