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2025-12-17FAA head details air traffic control modernization progress, next steps
By Lindsey Wilkinson December 17, 2025 FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford speaks during a hearing in the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) With modernization efforts ramping up at the Transportation Department’s Federal Aviation Administration, leaders have a sharpened focus on efficiency, safety and accountability, Administrator Bryan Bedford -
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It’s A Disaster
With the emergence of Coronavirus, we’ve noticed a great deal of Schadenfreude among airport activists across the world. Comments such as “It’s so quiet now. We should have an outbreak like this all the time!” The thing most residents forget is that we actually did twenty years ago. It was called ‘9/11’. If you look -
Why is it getting so much worse? (NextGen For Dummies)
Spoiler alert: The answer is not ‘The Third Runway’. However, you might call the current situation for residents in certain neighborhoods around Sea-Tac Airport a ‘Perfect Storm’. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? Yes, there has been a great deal of growth in the number of daily operations. First, there is the fact that in 2012 Delta -
UproarLA: Nextgen Nightmare @ Burbank Airport (FAA and BUR LIED)
FAA and BUR LIED | www.uproarla.org UproarLA has discovered the truth of how San Fernando Valley communities were sacrificed by the FAA and Burbank Airport in the name of efficiency and NextGen technology. Burbank Airport was alerted back in 2015 that new “condensed” flight paths would inundate quiet neighborhoods with airplane noise and pollution, and -
2018-10-25As Sea-Tac Airport traffic booms, distant neighborhoods are noisy despite FAA plan
Sea-Tac Airport traffic is growing rapidly and set to expand further as the region’s economy booms. But in cities from Shoreline to Des Moines, airplane noise is raising increased concern among residents. Promised relief from a project called “Greener Skies over Seattle” never materialized. By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter After more than two -
2018-10-25Seattle Times: As Sea-Tac Airport traffic booms, distant neighborhoods are noisy despite FAA plan
Sea-Tac Airport traffic is growing rapidly and set to expand further as the region’s economy booms. But in cities from Shoreline to Des Moines, airplane noise is raising increased concern among residents. Promised relief from a project called “Greener Skies over Seattle” never materialized. By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter After more than two -
Washington Post: Senate gives final approval for FAA reauthorization, sends bill to White House
The 1,200-page measure sets standards for the agency, airports and airlines. -
2018-09-24Seattle Times 24 hours of arrivals at Sea-Tac Greener Skies not implemented on west side of zipper merge
Flight tracking visualization showing arrival patterns at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on September 24, 2018, illustrating how aircraft approach paths have not implemented the Greener Skies plan for westside arrivals. The map demonstrates that most planes fly up to 15 miles north before turning south to the airport instead of turning over Elliott Bay and downtown -
2018-08-06
Categorical Exclusions, Metroplexes, and Aircraft Noise Complaints
August 6, 2018 IN10947 The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has initiated changes to airspace and flight procedures to take advantage of new technologies deployed under NextGen, a comprehensive air traffic modernization initiative that relies on satellite-based navigation and tracking to improve efficiency and airspace capacity. In some neighborhoods, however, FAA’s changes have increased overflights triggering