AOPA Pilot Magazine - August 2018 - 12
AOPA ACTION
AOPA says FAA decision
is 'dangerous'
Agency denies complaint against North Carolina FBO
THE FAA'S SOUTHERN REGION AIRPORTS DIVISION has decided against AOPA's Part
13 complaint over egregious fixed-base operator fees and unreasonable access at
Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina. It allows Signature, the sole FBO
at Asheville, to continue to charge general aviation pilots for unnecessary and
unwanted services. AOPA believes the decision contradicts existing FAA policies,
and could set a dangerous precedent for many other airports across the country.
"We believe the FAA Southern Region decision is incorrect and inconsistent
with the ruling in Orange County as well as the guidance FAA headquarters issued
as recently as December 2017," said AOPA General Counsel Ken Mead. "Most airports and FBOs are doing a great job, but in situations where that isn't the case we
will continue to fight for reasonable access, transparent and public posting of fees,
and competition where practical. Are these three simple, fair, and reasonable things
too much to ask for? I think not."
In 2017, AOPA filed Part 13 complaints against Asheville, Key West International
Airport in Florida, and Waukegan National Airport in Illinois. All three airports have
one FBO, Signature Flight Support, that controls all available ramp space for transient GA aircraft and imposes high fees for services that pilots often don't request or
need. The airports also receive FAA Airport Improvement Program grants, which
means they are bound by federal obligations to make the airport available for public
use and ensure FBOs impose only fair and nondiscriminatory fees on users. AOPA
withdrew the complaint against Waukegan after the airport announced a free transient tiedown area and worked with the FBO to reduce the price of self-service avgas.
In April, AOPA announced an Airport Access Watch List of 10 additional airports
that may have similar issues.
ASN volunteer
of the month
Ray Jilek
RAY JILEK was one of the first local operators to take the opportunity to speak
before a joint advisory panel about
the Powder River Training Complex.
Emphasizing that safety and communication are top priorities, Jilek quantified the
economic and logistical issues of operating within the special-use airspace. His
participation makes him a model AOPA
Airport Support Network volunteer.
12 | AOPA PILOT August 2018
In the decision, the FAA Southern Region
Airports Division noted that the airport "believes
that Signature's fees are necessary and reasonable" and the FAA is "not in a position to
second-guess [the airport]." However, federal
obligations that were included in the agency's 2017 guidance on FBO pricing specifically
require airports to "ensure" the FBO is imposing only reasonable fees and prices. The FAA's
significant deference to Asheville has enabled
unfettered monopoly pricing that will have detrimental effects on airport access.
In its reasoning, the FAA also bypassed its own
standard of compliance and concluded Asheville
is in compliance with federal grant assurances
based only on a review of the FBO's lease and not
on any specific actions of the airport.
While the decision does not set a binding
precedent for other airports, Mead believes it is
indicative of a flawed perspective at the FAA that
has allowed certain monopoly-position FBOs to
impose unreasonable fees on GA users and could
worsen.
"This shows just how important our work is,
and we will not stop until the FAA and the problem locations understand that fees imposed on
GA pilots at publicly funded airports cannot just
be whatever they think they can get away with,"
said Mead.
www.aopa.org/fbopricing
Jilek and his wife, Laura, own Eagle
Aviation Inc., which offers charter service,
flight instruction, aircraft maintenance, and
full FBO service in addition to managing Black
Hills Airport in Spearfish, South Dakota. Jelik
has more than 8,500 hours accident-free flight
experience in numerous aircraft ranging from
Light Sport to twin turbine-powered aircraft.
He is also an A&P mechanic, a life member of
the South Dakota Pilots Association, and is the
South Dakota state liaison for the Recreational
Aviation Foundation.
www.aopa.org/asn
http://www.aopa.org/fbopricing
http://www.aopa.org/asn
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