Later this week, Rich and others will be presenting this year’s Archie League Medal of Safety Awards and Region X Commitment to Safety awards to some very deserving ATO employees. You do more than make us look good-you also save lives. commercial service airports handled that day…ĪirVenture is extremely busy, but it’s also extremely professional, and that one-week event is a perfect of example of what we can accomplish when the FAA, our labor partners and the aviation community work together.Īnd I thank the air traffic controllers for making us all look so good. Thanks in large part to FAA controllers, the airport had logged 3,378 takeoffs and landings-that’s about 1,200 more operations than any of our busiest U.S. In fact, when I was having breakfast there with Sean Elliott, EAA’s vice president of advocacy and safety, his colleagues sent him the air traffic wrap-up from the day before. Speaking of Oshkosh, I can’t tell you how proud I was of our controllers during my visit this year. Though our airspace is the most complex in the world, our collaborative efforts ensure the highest safety standards anywhere. This is at the core of our operational excellence. No matter what the hour is, we make it our finest. Whether it’s keeping the aviation system operating and coworkers safe during a national tragedy, or shepherding 10,000 airplanes safely into an otherwise sleepy airport in Wisconsin every July. No matter our differences, we always work together to solve the big problems. You stayed on the job to keep the aviation system operational and safe, and that helped America and the world weather the pandemic.Īnd I can’t mention our finest hour without mentioning the heroic job that our controllers did 21 years ago, to secure our skies in the aftermath to 9/11, and get the air transportation system moving again when it was safe to do so. We had to keep aviation moving, because we knew aviation would be an essential part of the economic recovery of the world.Īnd to keep aviation moving, we needed your help to come up with new ways to minimize COVID risks….and we did. In the spring of 2020, ATC played a major role in repatriation flights and the rapid movement of life-saving vaccines around the globe. Our former Administrator, Steve Dickson, in the midst of the darkest days of COVID, had said we might one day look back on that time as our “finest hour.” We’ve come a long way in the three years since the last Communicating for Safety, and we’ve come a long way together as an agency. Thank you Rich, and thank you to NATCA and the FAA air traffic controller and Region X families for having me here-I’m honored. Recreational Flyers & Modeler Community-Based Organizations.Critical Infrastructure & Public Venues.
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