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Clinton's Welcome Plan to Improve Air Travel

The Clinton Administration's initiative to implement most of the recommendations of the 1993 National Commission to Ensure a Strong Competitive Airline Industry is generally welcome, and will both strengthen the airline industry and improve the air traffic control system. The initiative would, among other positive steps, extend the multilateral rules of international trade to air services, restructure the air traffic control system as an independent corporation, and rein in federal regulators. Unfortunately, the initiative also would increase govern- ment subsidies to commercial aeronautic research and production, which is well beyond any recommendation by the Airline Commission, and it is silent on much-needed tax relief for airlines as well as on how to pay for a reorganized air traffic control system. The document on the initiative, issued by Transportation Secretary Federico Pefia on January 6, 1994, indi- cates that legislation will be introduced in April. ....

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House Panel Advances Bill To Protect FAA from Shutdowns

The Aviation Funding Stability Act, approved by the House T&I Commitee, would enable to the FAA to keep operating during government shutdowns. ....

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