BAC SP #2 GAO Nextgen Air Transportation System FAA Has Made Some Progress GAO 13 264 April 2013 0001

• Excluded new procedures that would require new design criteria. FAA officials explained that having to wait for new design criteria for promduns could jeopardize the OAPM time frames. Outside of the OAPM initiative, FAA acknowledged that its staff had at times initiated work on a requested PBN procedure only to discover that the design criteria–which ensure the safety of procedures do not yet exist for the desired procedure. FAA officials stated that new design criteria would be needed to more widely deploy PBN procedures, but that effort is being undertaken independently of the OAPM initiative. Excluded sites with ongoing airspace redesign projects. Concerns about potential implementation delays also factored into FAA’s decision about which metroplexes to address in the midterm. Some industry stakeholders have voi md tDncerns that FAA did not include in its current OAPM plans the New York/Philadelphia metroplex, which is the nation’s most congested airspace and contributes to over half of domestic flight delays.37 However, FAA decided to exclude that B metroplex in light of the Record of Decision for the existing environmental reviews for FAA’s ongoing airspa@ redesign work for that area, because the agency did not want to initiate a new , environmental review procesS.38 In addition to the OAPM initiative, FAA has other PBN initiatives that aim to deliver midterrn benefits in less congested areas. For example, FAA’s Greener Shes project, which was initiated by Alaska Airlines, aims to deliver benefits to the Seattle metroplex beginning in 2013, and was shaped by local…

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