Washington, D.C. – The American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement in response to an outage of the Federal Aviation Administration’s vital NOTAM system.

“While the causes of this morning’s outage of the critical NOTAM system are still being determined, one thing has long been true: the FAA is chronically underfunded and does not have all the resources necessary to adequately support our national aviation system. That is a direct result of efforts by the airline industry and their allies in government to starve an essential agency,” said William J. McGee, Senior Fellow for Aviation & Travel at the American Economic Liberties Project. “We look forward to the results of a thorough investigation to determine whether underfunding contributed to this morning’s latest crisis and to inform a long-overdue national conversation about the state of commercial aviation in the U.S.”

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The American Economic Liberties Project works to ensure America’s system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. Economic Liberties believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; foreign trade arrangements support domestic security and democracy; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power.