Great news for aviation yesterday as another potential federal administration nominee withdrew consideration. You may recall Jane Garvey from the early 90’s when she was the head of Logan Airport. Two years after Garvey took the helm, the FAA fined the Massachusetts Port Authority $178,000 for 136 security violations at Logan that included failure to screen baggage properly and allowing easy access to restricted areas and parked planes. Two of the 9/11/2001 hijacked planes left from Logan.
She was the FAA Administrator from 1997 to 2001. Some of the notable accomplishments during her tenure were the abuse of Bill Bainbridge of B&C Specialty Products and her role implementing the administrative ticket program where inspectors could implement actions against a pilot without requiring proof, and without a process for appeal
The biggest current danger to general aviation from here is her role in privatization. As of last May she is head of public-private partnerships (aphorism for infrastructure privatization) at JP Morgan. http://blog.littlesis.org/tag/jane-garvey/
It’s a never-ending battle.