Funding the NAS Archives

June 4, 2015 // Rinaldi Speaks at RTCA Aviation Symposium on FAA Reform

This week marked the 2015 RTCA (founded as the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics) Global Aviation Symposium. NATCA President Paul Rinaldi was a featured speaker at the event. NATCA’s Director of Safety and Technology Dale Wright, […]

May 21, 2015 // NATCA President Paul Rinaldi Testifies before Senate Committee to Advocate for Stable, Predictable Funding for the NAS

Rinaldi (left) with fellow hearing panelist Jeff Smisek, President and CEO, United Airlines. NATCA President Paul Rinaldi testified before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Tuesday, May 19, to discuss the need for a […]

April 25, 2015 // Paul Rinaldi Column in Eno Transportation Weekly

The United States and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are considered the gold standard for aviation across the globe. Our goal is to maintain and improve upon our high standard. However fundamental change is needed to […]

March 26, 2015 // Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation Hearing “Options for FAA Air Traffic Reform”

This Tuesday, NATCA President Paul Rinaldi testified before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation. Rinaldi delivered his remarks during a hearing about the upcoming FAA Reauthorization process and options for FAA air […]

Dec. 11, 2014 // At ALPA Event, Rinaldi Offers Blunt Assessment of System Funding Situation, if Left Unchanged: “With Sequestration, the Future is Bleak”

NATCA has spent 2014 actively participating in the growing and critically important discussion regarding the FAA’s air traffic control funding and structure issues. The goals: Prevent a recurrence of the negative effects created by sequestration and […]

Nov. 20, 2014 // Rinaldi Denounces Sequestration, Calls for Aviation System Funding Certainty, at House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Hearing on FAA Reauthorization

Sequestration is a danger to the National Airspace System (NAS). That was the clear message NATCA President Paul Rinaldi delivered Tuesday, Nov. 18, to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, at its hearing examining the upcoming […]