Good news relating to General Aviation are not exactly filling up newspapers these days - this is also why we organize our flight - so when positive things happens it’s good to spread the word about it…

Recently, the post 9/11 security restrictions dramatically impacting General Aviation activities at Reagan National airport have been eased. The activity there was reduced from 10 to 12 GA movements per hour down to 1 or 2 per day.

The Sun Gazette published a long article about that on Sunday, and I could not resist to republish some parts of it here:

“To the extent airports are suffering, it reduces our revenue stream,” Hynes said. “Airports are important to the local economy. They don’t take our bucks, they give us bucks.”

…

According to COG’s most recent report, Dulles and Reagan National airports in 2005 employed 28,570 people, who were paid a total of about $1.28 billion. The airports took in about $6.5 billion in revenue and paid $326 million in state and local taxes and $547 million in federal taxes.

…

“Sometimes there is pressure to rezone property,” Bennett said. “The last thing we want is non-compatible land use around the airport.”

Reading that is just so good… The discussion in comments on the Sun Gazette article is quite animated, and hopefully some pro-GA users corrected some wrong things that were said by less educated ones.