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Blakey, also anticipates recovery, so much so that it is urging timely deployment of the Next Generation Air Transportation System Next- Gen to improve airspace capacity and meet ris- ing demand for air travel. Many of our national aviation systems limitations so obvious just a few years ago have been masked by the economic slowdown, AIA states in a report timed for release during National Aerospace Week, Sept. Despite flagging air travel in the wake of the finan- cial crisis and a global recession that persisted throughout , long-range forecasts from a wide spectrum of sources indicate robust demand for air travel over the next two decades.
Remem- ber the FAA projection weve cited more than once in these pages, of a future tripling in air traf- fic? It now appears to be on the table again. AIA directly ties airspace modernization, in short NextGen, to the industrys future eco- nomic success and environmental profile. Safely expanding airspace system capacity and address- ing growing environmental concerns are the two most significant challenges facing the U.
Each of the reports eight recommendations are significant to aerospace manufacturers AIAs core constituency and the majority would impact avionics OEMs and architects of performance-based navigation PBN routes and procedures specifically. AIA posits that user-funded support of the nations aviation infrastructure through taxes and fees paid into the Aviation Trust Fund may have to be rethought in the case of NextGen.
