FAA News Updates

The selected projects include a partnership between the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and companies Joby Aviation, Archer Aviation, Beta Technologies and Electra. 

Chair Jennifer Homendy said the House bill’s “watered-down” requirements wouldn’t do enough to prevent a future tragedy, and wouldn’t be as effective as a Senate bill that came up short of passing in the House.

Senators are pushing for changes to the NDAA after crash investigators warned the legislation would undo key safety reforms stemming from a collision between an airliner and Army helicopter.

Under the agency’s original emergency order, carriers that didn’t comply could face penalties of up to $75,000 for every flight operated above the mandated limits.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Nov. 16 it is lifting all restrictions on commercial flights that were imposed at 40 major airports during the country's longest government shutdown.

Though airlines say they expect normal operations to resume within three or four days after the order is lifted, some have suggested that problems might linger longer than that.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Nov. 13 the move would help TSA employees who took extra shifts to keep security lines moving as paychecks stopped.

Flight reductions will not rise to 10% by the end of the week because more air traffic controllers are coming to work as the government shutdown ends.

The Transportation Department and the FAA have said they relied on data, including reports from pilots of controller responsiveness, to make the decision to reduce flights.

UPS and FedEx said Nov. 7 that they were grounding their fleets of McDonnell Douglas MD-11s “out of an abundance of caution." The planes make up about 9% and 4% of their fleets, respectively.