PILOTS CONTINUING TO ADVOCATE FOR SECONDARY COCKPIT BARRIERS
December 30, 2019
Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act, a landmark bill with many assignments to federal agencies for rulemaking and data reporting. Section 336 of the Act directed the FAA to require installation of secondary cockpit barriers on newly manufactured aircraft for domestic passenger service no later than one year after the date of enactment of the Act. This deadline passed last month, but FAA has yet to finalize such an order, though FAA Deputy Administrator Dan Elwell told Congress at a hearing in September whose subject was Act implementation that the agency was working on the issue.
In response to the missed deadline, the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) released a statement criticizing the FAA and demanding prompt issuance of an order pursuant to Section 336. ALPA has criticized the FAA’s use of a working group to develop standards for the secondary barriers as an “unnecessary delay.”
If you have any questions, please contact Evelyn Sahr (esahr@eckertseamans.com or 202-659-6622); Drew Derco (dderco@eckertseamans.com or 202-659-6665).
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