Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die: the story of the Transatlantic Common Aviation Area.
The Transatlantic Common Aviation Area (TCAA, also known as the Common Transatlantic Aviation Area, CTAA, or simply the Common Aviation Area, CAA) (1) is a revolutionary idea in the field of international aviation, seeking to move beyond the framework that has dominated the industry for over half a century....

Performance-based management at the U.S. Transportation Security Administration: the agency shares its experience with comprehensive performance measurement as a method of putting innovation into practice, highlighting the requirements, challenges, and successes of creating results-based government.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) serves as a model of innovation in its performance measurement and management activities. While it is a new agency that continues to evolve, it has held innovation as a core value since the beginning--and performance measurement and management as the method to identify appropriate...

A series of unexpected troubles: the TSA faces a challenge to improve its screening processes. What can be done?
If bad publicity could be converted to dollars, the Transportation Security Administration would be so flush with cash it could forego congressional budget requests for years. Congress and the media have focused their ire on the ineptitude and alleged criminality of some airport screeners, to the exclusion of equally...

Homeland security: A challenging environment; The meaning of homeland security, its intent, and the key issues officials will encounter in addressing its policy and management challenges. (Article).
Officials at all levels of government with responsibility for homeland security since the September 11 terrorist attacks have been busy crafting de tailed homeland security goals and objectives, strategies to meet those expectations, key milestones to track implementation status, integrated business processes across organizations responsible for homeland security, and...

Airline Finance News - North America.
Jun 30, 2008 In what represents the first time in a decade that the AAA has forecast a lower number of people taking driving vacations on consecutive holidays, fewer people are expected to drive or fly over the Independence Day weekend, compared to last year. The AAA...

Aircraft News - North America.
Apr 28, 2008 Changing dynamics in airline industry raises questions about regulation. Soaring fuel prices, consolidation, and bankruptcies raise questions about the role of Washington in the airline industry. Some observers say the government should play a larger role in easing congestion. Some say Congress has been...

Aircraft News - North America.
Apr 7, 2008 Air Transport Association President James May testified that the group's members have committed to an additional 30% fuel efficiency improvement by 2025 and that the industry is dedicated to developing an alternative to jet fuel. He said efforts to replace the nation's outdated air...

Aircraft News - North America.
Apr 14, 2008 Unions representing air traffic controllers and air safety specialists say a new, $2.4 billion telecom system built to feed radar data to the nation's air traffic control towers is unreliable and makes flying less safe. The new system, called the FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI)...

Up, up, and away? Space is the place.
FORTY YEARS AFTER the Wright brothers' first flight, more than 1 million people had flown in airplanes. More than 40 years after Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth, barely 500 individuals have flown in space. It turns out that federal regulations are stronger than gravity in holding back...

Company Watch - Southwest Airlines.
Apr 7, 2008 American Airlines' cancellations may have helped Southwest Airlines a little." We had more room to fly around the storms and no air traffic control issues," Mike Tyson, one of Southwest's chief dispatchers, said Wednesday. Tuesday's storms prompted Southwest to cancel about 80 flights and...