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James K. Coyne, President, National Air Transportation Association
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Jim Coyne is a former Congressman from Pennsylvania, worked in the Reagan White House, and for 15 years has been the President of NATA. He has been a active pilot for 35 years and holds an ATP rating, with over 5000 flight hours. NATA represents aviation businesses at over a thousand US airports and has worked to promote all forms of civil aviation for nearly 70 years. Jim also serves on the Board of the Flight Safety Foundation and is the Founder and President of the Air Charter Safety Foundation. He holds degrees from Yale University and Harvard Business School.
He has also served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
February 18, 2009 04:24 PM
Before we rush down this path too far, the first question to ask is: How will a federal Cap-and-Trade law affect our economy? Without doubt, transportation is one of the most powerful engines of economic growth. But in just the last 12 months, America has been transformed from an “on-the-go” nation with millions of citizens, businessmen, and producers of our goods and services constantly in motion into an entirely different country where everyone is told to just “hunker down.” This “hunkering down” is one of the primary psychological forces pushing our economy over a cliff. Is now the time to place new…
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