Article: HOUSE PASSES REP. WATERS' AMENDMENT TO REQUIRE OVERSIGHTPRIOR TO CONSOLIDATION OF FAA REGIONAL OFFICES

Article: REP. WATERS, 34 OTHER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS URGE FAA NOT TO ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... engineering services at the FAA's regional offices. The letter was signed ... engineering services at the FAA's regional offices presumably would reduce ... closure of several of the FAA's regional offices. The pending consolidation ...

Article: SEN. CLINTON URGES FAA TO ADDRESS STAFFING DEFICIENCIES ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Reauthorization bill to prevent the FAA from implementing a plan that ... stationed in six of the nine FAA's Regional Offices. The Regional Offices that would be subject to consolidation ... Senate Republicans blocked the FAA Reauthorization bill and stymied ...

Article: FAA Transfers Inspector after Hardline Response to Alaska ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  September 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... airline is moving past special FAA scrutiny imposed on it after ... inspector. Senior officials in the FAA's regional office in Renton ... office, more so than other regional offices, has a cozy relationship with ... has hired away several senior FAA officials. One of Whitaker ...

Article: FAA Demonstrates How Hard It Can Be to Make Pay Reform Fly
The Washington Post;  August 2, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... The union contract talks at the FAA have played out against the agency ... good marks for its design. The FAA created a "core compensation ... implemented in field offices but not at regional offices or at FAA headquarters. The decision to limit ...

Article: Commentary: FAA Does Not Trust Itself.
Regional Aviation News;  August 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... has actually quantified the FAA's lack of standardization ... industry has long known that FAA inspectors and their superiors in various district, field and regional offices disagree about the exact interpretation ... operator dollars. It is taking the FAA on and is asking for Congressional ...

Aviation Safety: FAA Needs to Strengthen the Management of Its ...
General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... compliance with existing policies by FAA staff and (2) the completeness ... designee oversight. For example, FAA could evaluate more of its field ... the assessments conducted by some FAA regional offices--to ascertain the extent to which ...

Article: The Reorganized FAA: Streamlined or Flabbier?; More ...
The Washington Post;  August 31, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... who dashed off a letter to FAA chief T. Allan McArtor in his ... between now and then. Although the FAA changes have stifled some complaints ... inconsistent interpretation of FAA regulations by the agency's 10 regional offices, the peculi