Washington Post: As White House defends plan to privatize air traffic control, another proposal is unveiled Ashley Halsey III As Senate Republicans voiced skepticism Wednesday with a Trump administration plan to spin more than 30,000 Federal Aviation Administration workers into a nonprofit corporation, House Democrats announced a counterproposal that would preserve the FAA. There are… Read more »

Sky Valley Chronicle: President Trump's plan to privatize America's Air Traffic Control System not passing the smell test   —  Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02), the top-Ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Aviation released the following statement Monday after President Trump announced plans to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system. “The… Read more »

Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02), the top-Ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Aviation, today released the following statement after President Trump announced plans to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system. “The President’s rationale for privatizing the world’s safest and most complex air traffic control system simply does not pass the smell test,” said… Read more »

Congressman will join state Commerce Director Brian Bonlender to co-host “Choose Washington” exhibit featuring Washington aerospace industry leaders Read more »

Congressman: how can the system be both ‘safe and broken’ as privatization-proponents suggest? Read more »

San Juan Islander: Larsen Takes Aim at Proposal to Privatize U.S. Air Traffic Controllers, Calls for Focus on Bipartisan Agreement in FAA Reauthorization Talks Congressman: how can the system be both ‘safe and broken’ as privatization-proponents suggest? In a hearing of the House Committee on Transportation, Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02), the top-Ranking Democrat on the House… Read more »

The case against privatizing the nation's air traffic control system The Hill Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-ORE.) and Rick Larsen (D-WASH) 5/10/2017 On every domestic flight, passengers have a window-seat view of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) work to modernize our aviation infrastructure through a set of technologies and procedures called NextGen. After a rocky… Read more »

Editorial: Back airline promises with consumer protections Everett Herald Herald Editorial Board 5/3/2017 Even though United Airlines chief executive Oscar Munoz botched his initial reaction to a United passenger being roughed up, knocked unconscious and dragged off a flight because he refused to give up his seat, the head of the airlines corrected his flight path and said the right… Read more »

Congressman to United Airlines CEO: ‘what happened on United Airlines flight 3411 cannot happen again’ Read more »

Congressman to United Airlines CEO: 'what happened on United Airlines flight 3411 cannot happen again' San Juan Islander 5/2/2017 Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02), the top-Ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Aviation, May 2,  2017 helped lead a hearing examining customer service problems associated with US airlines. Today’s hearing follows the forcible removal of… Read more »