"I am not convinced that kids coming out of flight school and telling them they need to be towing banners or teaching students or boring holes in the sky while racking up debt produces the best pilots."
"At the end of the day, this is about the consumer."
"I think if you testify one more time, you get a free cup of coffee."
"So then, when you add in the fact that we are looking at advanced aviation systems, you have got advanced urban mobility, even remote piloted vehicles, that doesn't help, right? I mean, that just furt..."
"I am looking at a 98-percent increase in passenger enplanements, a 76-percent increase in airplanes. Yet, a 16-percent increase in ATPs, or pilots."
"I think it's fitting that we kicked off our series of hearings with safety, which underpins our entire aviation system."
"Anything less is an insult to the profession and the industry that relies on our pilots, to be quite honest with you."
"Thanks to the leadership of Chair Graves and Ranking Member Cohen and many others on the Committee, the Payroll Support Program and its strong worker protection and retention provisions provided a bri..."
"I want to thank Mr. Collins jumping in as a freshman and working on solutions to this issue."
"provide the safest, most efficient aerospace industry in the world and satisfy the needs of aviation interests of the United States."
"It is important we gather input from Members of Congress as well as stakeholders."