{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://langworthy.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-nick-langworthy-leads-bipartisan-letter-urging-faa-protect-airline", "Congressman Nick Langworthy Leads Bipartisan Letter Urging FAA to Protect Airline Safety Requirements", "2023-10-30", "2023", "2023-10", "Republican", "House", "NY", "Nicholas A. Langworthy", "L000600", "langworthy.house.gov", "langworthy", "https://langworthy.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Nick Langworthy (NY-23), along with Congressmen Brian Higgins (NY-26) and Jake Ellzey (TX-06), led a bipartisan letter to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) following the agency\u2019s Notice of Intent to revise rules that have allowed scheduled passenger airline operations that circumvent safety requirements.\n\n\u201cUnfortunately, a loophole in existing federal aviation regulations enables some passenger airlines to operate scheduled service under lower safety standards as \u201cpublic charters.\u201d These are not traditional charter operators. Travelers who book tickets on these airlines may not be aware of the FAA\u2019s bifurcated safety rules, which allow these operations without the same crew rest requirements; pilot training and experience standards; or flight dispatch and maintenance requirements that most other airlines must follow, even when operating the same type of aircraft,\u201d the members wrote.\n\n\u201cWhile policymakers may debate the details of safety and security standards, we should agree that once standards are set, they should apply equally to scheduled passenger airlines,\u201d the letter continued.\n\nThe full text of the letter can be found here.\n\nCongressman Langworthy has been a champion for airline safety in Congress. He recently led a successful amendment to this year\u2019s FAA Reauthorization legislation (H.R. 3935) to uphold pilot training hours put in place following the tragic crash of Colgan Air Flight 2407 in Clarence, NY.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:49:26Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://langworthy.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-nick-langworthy-leads-bipartisan-letter-urging-faa-protect-airline"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.104182029142976, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}