This issue features:
 
•    A look at the year ahead from incoming RAA Chairman Dan Garton noting despite future challenges the regional airline industry continues to show its resilience to overcome all odds.
•    Special report on how various suppliers are working with regional airlines to manage maintenance costs of their aircraft fleet.
•    Coverage of the AAAE/RAA Airport and Regional Airline Executive Summit in Memphis, December 5-7. 2011. Click here to view videos of selected speakers.
•    Updated Industry Statistics from OAG/UBM Aviation includes 2011 data.
•    Announcement of an RAA-led Washington, DC Fly-In this spring.
•    Analysis of future pilot supply issues by RAA operations and safety executives.

What are regional airlines doing to train the next generation of pilots?

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Featured in this issue:

• With a looming pilot shortage, threats to scheduled air service in many communities, and efforts to stop the proposed $100 per flight air tax, RAA has a full slate of legislative and regulatory activity.
• Report from the 2011 RAA Summer HR/Inflight/Anti-Drug & Alcohol Misuse Seminars in New Orleans
• Read about the newly revamped Gulfstream International Airlines
• Agenda for AAAE/RAA Airport & Regional Airline Executive Summit

As US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood stated at this year's RAA Annual Convention in Nashville, "regional airlines have a seat at the table when we make aviation policy."
The newly published RAA 2011 Annual Report begins to chronicle these achievements, and hopefully will be useful to you in helping our member airlines continue to fly safely, professionally and reliably for years to come.

Download the 2011 Annual Report.

How is the regional airline industry preparing for 2011?

Read the forecasts and insights of leading airline executives and manufacturers and suppliers in the newly published Regional Horizons 1st Quarter 2011 issue.

See special fold-out section of the RAA 2011 Annual Convention schedule May 16-19 in Nashville featuring VIP Guest U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Special Women in Aviation Supplement also included.

The Regional Airline Association is proud to salute the efforts of women in the regional airline industry in an all-new Special Supplement to be distributed at the Women in Aviation International Annual Conference in Reno Febuary 24-27.  

The booklet includes:

    * statistics about women's roles in airlines worldwide
    * messages from RAA President Roger Cohen and WAI President Dr. Peggy Chabrian
    * profiles of a dozen women in various jobs that support the regional airline industry.

  Click here to read the electronic version

Watch the Regional Horizons video interview with Dr. Hans Van Dongen detailing how an RAA endorsed, new study will close the gap in available fatigue science, and how airlines can benefit from the research and best practices this three-phase study is identifying.


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This issue focuses on maintenance trends in regional airline organizations. Click here to download the issue and read about:

+ RAA's renewed strength by newly elected Chairman Jim Rankin

+ Fall 2010 membership meeting coverage

+ Exclusive interview with Dr. Hans Van Dongen of the Washington State University Sleep and Performance Research Center on a groundbreaking fatigue science study on multi-segment airline operations

+ Mid-term election analysis by RAA Senior Vice President-Government Affairs Faye Malarkey Black

+ The final DOT Anti-Drug and Alcohol Policy

+Newly released regional airline industry statistics by OAG

RAA is pleased to announce that the 2011 Media Kit is now available. 

Click here to download the media kit.

This issue focuses on how the Regional Airline Association (RAA) is working to advance commercial aviation safety. Click here to download the issue and read about:
 
  + RAA's role in shaping HR 5900
 
  + Structural changes mark re-defining regional airline industry
 
  + Interview with American Eagle President Dan Garton
 
  + Preliminary Agenda for RAA Meeting December 8-9
 
 

The quarterly Regional Horizons has a new look and feel!  We have an exclusive interview with former ABC Aviation reporter and author, John Nance, a special on our members' efforts in Haiti following the devastating earthquake, and an updated two-page convention spread featuring information on our speakers and special sessions!  We hope you will enjoy!  Download here!

 The most recent issue of Regional Horizons is now available to download!  This issue features the first Chairman's column by new RAA Board Chair, Russell "Chip" Childs, a recap of the RAA Fall Meeting, and the latest information on the the RAA Safety Task Force.