Opinion | 'It’s time we put someone in charge who can put the FAA back on course. That someone is Phil Washington.' — Sen. John Hickenlooper
Phil Washington, the CEO at Denver International Airport, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to be the FAA administrator. There’s currently no Senate-confirmed leader at the FAA. If there were, they’d be fired by now.
Today, Phil runs Denver International Airport , the third busiest airport on planet earth. He’s in charge of runway safety, airfields, local safety action – you name it. Every day, he manages a major organization nearly the size of the FAA. He took over DIA in the midst of, you guessed it, a big expansion project facing delays and unforeseen challenges..
Now, some senators are trying to slow down Phil’s nomination by claiming he’s not a civilian because of his prior military service and therefore needs a waiver to serve. It’s nonsense. The statute only states that the FAA Administrator must be a civilian; Phil has been a civilian for 23 years. In contrast, a nominee to be Secretary of Defense must be out of the military for seven years to be considered a civilian, and even then only if they were commissioned officers.
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