If I didn't know better, (and maybe I don't), the Pilots Bill of Rights 2 has been attached to H.B. 4441, for what purpose? To kill it? Could be.
H.B.4441 is titled: A Bill to Transfer operation of air traffic services currently provided by the Federal Aviation Administration to a separate non-for-profit corporate entity, etc., etc. etc.
And when you see who gets representation on the new Board that will control ATC, its pretty clear that airlines and unions will control it. Its a long bill, 273 pages, and I've not had time yet to read it all. But airline control of ATC sounds a lot like user fees for all, to me anyhow. There is language in the bill for user fees for turbines, but once this new Board is up and running, can they really be limited?
So here we have a bill with a lot of contention in it, and they stick the PBOR-2 in with it. Call your Congress-critter and demand that the PBOR-2 be pulled from H.B. 4441 and handled separately. I think there is real grounds for concern that H.B. 4441 could stall and then we are back to the temporary authorizations for the FAA that Congress has been so famous for over the past 10 years, and with it, the PBOR-2 gets stalled too.
Here is a link to the bill:
http://transportation.house.gov/uplo...r_act_text.pdf