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...

NTSB Chief Law Judge Dismisses Emergency Order of Revocation Issued by the Federal Aviation Administration.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a two day hearing in Philadelphia, the Chief Administrative Law Judge of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) dismissed an emergency order issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) seeking revocation of the Airframe & Powerplant, Inspection Authorization, and Commercial Pilot certificates held...

Aviation seeks new security tools: biometrics is seen as one solution with the potential to substantially improve today's glaringly inadequate security standards. (Air Transport & General Aviation).
On November 20, after much Congressional wrangling, US President Bush signed into law America's new Aviation and Transportation Security Act, which is aimed at preventing, or at least minimising, future terrorist attacks. While covering all modes of transportation, the Act is primarily focused on airport and aircraft security which,...

More turbulence ahead: a bumpy ride during U.S.-Japanese aviation talks exemplifies the need for a pragmatic course in future aviation negotiations.
I. INTRODUCTION As U.S. firms collectively weather the relatively hostile business climate in Japan, certain United States-based airlines have been flying above it all for years. Those U.S. airline carriers allowed to take advantage of the trans-Pacific passenger and cargo market are doing well competing against their...

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...

Security vs. safety: the hazmat placarding controversy.
"We are recommending that the Department of Transportation maintain the placard system as it is now." With these words, spoken at the Congressional Fire Services Institute dinner on April 7 in Washington, DC, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff brought to conclusion a conflict between two separate federal...

Arroyo relieves ATO interim head.
Byline: David Cagahastian President Arroyo yesterday relieved Air Transportation Office (ATO) officer-in-charge Daniel Dimagiba and appointed Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC) Secretary Leandro R. Mendoza as replacement in a concurrent capacity. Mrs. Arroyo gave Mendoza three months to "address administrative and technical issues" which...

RP-US air talks end in stalemate.
Byline: LYNDA B. VALENCIA (PNA) Stalemate! That was the decision made during the Philippines and U.S. air negotiating panels when they met in Washington D.C. last month to discuss the full implementation of the 1982 air transport agreement (ATA). Franklin Ebdalin, Foreign Affairs undersecretary said...

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...