FAA Reauthorization, Enhancing America’s Gold Standard in Aviation Safety
In his February 2023 statement to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Capt. Jason Ambrosi, president of ALPA, praised the U.S. aviation system as the global gold standard in safety while warning that vigilance is essential to maintain it. He credited the 2010 FAA reauthorization with reducing passenger fatalities by 99.8 percent through stronger pilot training, qualifications, fatigue rules, and safety management systems, while emphasizing the need to extend these protections to cargo operations. Capt. Ambrosi highlighted the critical role of data-driven programs like ASIAS and CAST in identifying risks and driving safety improvements, and urged Congress to ensure FAA funding for modernization, resist efforts to weaken two-pilot cockpit standards, and guard against complacency. He stressed that innovation, certification reforms, and new aviation technologies must enhance—not erode—the current high level of safety, and called on lawmakers, industry, and labor to work together to preserve America’s leadership in aviation safety.
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