Morning Transportation: Hazy prospects for Trump’s infrastructure package

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Reps. Ralph Abraham (R-La.) and Steve Russell (R-Okla.) recently sent a letter to GAO backing a review by the agency related to fixed-base operators, which perform services like fueling and parking at airports. Among other issues, the lawmakers “are concerned that at many public use airports, airports having only one FBO have leased out all or substantially all of the ramp space for parking general aviation aircraft and the FBO is extracting fees and charges from pilots far in excess of the costs of the public use ramp,” according to the letter. “The FAA Airports office is responsible for exercising oversight of the [Airport Improvement] grant program at public use airports, but it appears to us there may be significant and serious lapses in the attention this FAA office is giving” to GA users, Abraham and Russell wrote. GAO told MT that it has been looking into issues related to fixed-base operators since the spring, at the request of House Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) and Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.).

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