“Safety has been and always will be the single highest priority for RAA. Regional airlines have voluntarily adopted and have long benefitted from these safety programs, the legislation incorporates many elements urged by RAA’s Strategic Safety Initiative, and our member regional airlines look forward to continuing our efforts with the FAA and all stakeholders to further build upon commercial aviation’s outstanding safety record.” Roger Cohen, RAA President

Vice President Scott Foose outlined RAA's effort to fill the fatigue science gap during a panel discussion at FAA's June 7-10, 2010 Global Safety Management conference in New Orleans. RAA's multi-phase research on pilot fatigue and education focuses on multi-segment flight operations by US domestic airlines.  Click here for Scott's presentation,  and for more general information about the FAA event click here bit.ly/capKPN

NTSB Chair Deborah Hersman told RAA Convention attendees that "regional airlines are the major leagues. At any given moment, there are nearly 5,000 flights in the national airspace." 
Read her entire remarks here.  Follow the jump to view videos of her speech. 

Regional Horizons reports on NTSB Chair Deborah Hersman's keynote speech at the Milwaukee Convention. Click here.

Read the full RAA press release.

Tuesday, March 9: Former RAA Board Member,  Bryan Bedford (President and CEO, Republic Airways) will be a panelist  on "Will recovery in aviation lead to a transformed industry?"

Wednesday, March 10: RAA President Roger Cohen will be a panelist on New Decade.......Dawn or Dusk for Regional Carriers?

View Roger Cohen's Presentation-here.

*NEW* Roger Cohen Presentation with annotations- download here

For a full agenda, click here.

RAA sent the following letter to Chairman Oberstar and Ranking Member Mica prior to today's hearing "Update: The Federal Aviation Administration's Call to Action on Airline Safety and Pilot Training".  Click here to view the letter.

The Regional Airline Association (RAA) today welcomed the release of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) report, “Answering the Call to Action on Airline Safety and Pilot Training.” The report describes the progress made in response to FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s June 2009 Call to Action on airline safety.

Read the USA Today Editorial

Read the RAA Opposing View- Opposing view: Code-sharing benefits fliers

Conde Nast Traveler and the Wall Street Journal  each posted stories about the regional airline industry recently. The RAA wrote the editors following the stories being published in order to reemphasize our commitment to safety and outline our own Strategic Safety Initiative which is at the forefront of aviation research.

Read the RAA response to Conde Nast's Traveler magazine article
Read  the RAA response to the Wall Street Journal article