Annual aviation frenzy stirs up Washington - CAPA Commentary, Part I

If it is February it means Washington DC is abuzz with all kinds of aviation news - the President’s budget, hearings on the long-overdue Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill. Then there is the FAA forecast conference telling us once again that traffic will rise exponentially over the next 20 years while the skies blacken with more aircraft than can be handled by air traffic control, unless we get NextGen.