"ALPA pilots are indebted to Chairman DeFazio and Chairman Larsen and others for developing and extending the PSP."
"The FAA must continue to take strong enforcement action against passengers who become unruly when told they must wear masks."
"It is appropriate to, even at this early stage of the Nation's emergence from the pandemic, start thinking about the aviation industry's recovery."
"We have to be emphatic."
"I, numerous times, asked the FAA Administrator to impose a mask mandate, and he refused, saying, 'Oh, you couldn't do that.'"
"I, along with Homeland Security Chair Thompson, sent a letter last month calling on the Transportation Security Administration to strictly enforce the President's new order."
"I want to commend the Biden administration for issuing Executive Orders requiring mask use in transportation."
"We have to inform people that a lot of things people are using routinely are not allowed on airplanes."
"I am hopeful, with this current program--which is included in this COVID package pending over in the dysfunctional Senate, with stupid rules written by Senators who have been dead for 10 years."
"We don't want to move too quickly, as we recover, to remove these precautions."
"But this time, it is a little different. Congress rose to the occasion, and we created what I think is the most successful part of the CARES Act or anything we have done during the pandemic to support..."