More than seven months after President Biden tapped him to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, Phillip Washington is slated to appear before a Senate committee Wednesday that will consider his nomination.
The FAA has been under acting leadership since April as the nation’s aviation system has faced successive bouts of travel delays and cancellations, safety oversight challenges and a meltdown of an aging pilot-alert system in January that shut down the nation’s airspace.
Washington, the chief executive of Denver International Airport and a 24-year Army veteran, headed Biden’s transition team for transportation after the 2020 election.The longtime transit official in Los Angeles and Denver has not been a commercial airline pilot, as have some of his recent predecessors atop the agency, including Steve Dickson, who was nominated by President Donald Trump in 2019, and current FAA acting administrator Billy Nolen.
His “array of experience, while not all in aviation, is all transportation connected,” Hickenlooper said, citing his decades in the military and experience helping turn around a major transportation initiative in Denver.Some Republicans have come out against Washington. In a statement Tuesday, Sen. Roger Wicker said “President Biden has chosen to double down on an unqualified nominee to lead the FAA.
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