Senior Seminar in Aviation

1.   The two organizations I chose include the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the National Aeronautic Association (NAA). The IATA has been around since 1945 and was founded in Havana, Cuba. The NAA has been around since 1905, and according to their website, they were founded prior to the Wright Brothers even going public with their aircraft invention. 2.   The IATA’s vision is “to be the force for value creation and innovation driving a safe, secure and profitable air transport industry that sustainably connects and enriches our world”, with a mission to “represent, lead, and serve the airline industry” (Vision and Mission, 2010). In representing the airline industry, the IATA increases awareness of the benefits of aviation as it relates to air transport for the world economy. They fight for reasonable rules and regulation and will stand up to regulators creating unfair law. In leading the airline industry, the IATA has created standards over the course of 7

1.       The US-UAE Open Skies Agreement is not unique in its creation. The United States has many Open Skies Agreements with a multitude of countries. According to the U.S. Department of State (Open Skies, 2017), these agreements: provide rights for airlines to offer international passenger and cargo services. They are pro-consumer, pro-competition, and pro-growth. They include reciprocal obligations to eliminate government interference in commercial airline decisions about routes, capacity, and pricing, so airlines can provide more affordable, convenient, and efficient air service to consumers, promoting increased travel and trade, and facilitating broad economic growth. Open Skies agreements improve flexibility for airline operations, expand cooperative marketing opportunities between airlines, enable global express delivery cargo networks, liberalize charter regulations, and commit both governments to high standards of safety and security. Generally speaking, the agreem

1.       John Dunkin’s qualifications according to L (2018), include: [managing] airline and corporate flight departments, [certifying] airlines from start-up under FAA regulations, and [overseeing] the Trump presidential campaign’s air fleet, which included managing all aviation transportation for travel to 203 cities in 43 states over the course of 21 months. In addition, he is actually a pilot, unlike many FAA administrators, such as the prior administrator Michael Huerta, and he had started flying before he received his driver’s license (Snyder et al., 2018). It has been said by officials of the Trump administration that if chosen, it would not be because of Dunkin’s ties to President Trump (even though that certainly helps!), but rather his skillset and qualifications. 2.       “Among the other candidates are the current acting head of FAA, Daniel Elwell, a former Air Force pilot who served at the agency from 2006-2008” (Levin, Natter, Beene, 2018). Elwell had worke