FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
March 11, 2024
Alliance for Aviation Across America Statement in Response to the White House FY2025 Budget
Washington, DC – The Alliance for Aviation Across America today issued the following statement in response to the release of the White House’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget, which, along with accompanying documents, includes proposals and language that take aim at business aviation.
“The President’s budget unduly singles out business aviation with several harmful proposals that would hurt jobs and local economies in America,” said Devin Osting, interim executive director of the Alliance for Aviation Across America.
Osting added, “General aviation, including business aviation, is a vital resource for businesses and organizations of all sizes throughout the country, supporting over $247 billion in economic impact and 1.2 million jobs.”
One of the proposed changes in the White House budget would increase by a factor of five the fuel tax paid by general aviation operators, who already pay the cost their operations impose on an air traffic system built for commercial operators. Another would alter the schedule which aircraft can be depreciated, which is currently in line with other capital investments, from computers to bulldozers.
“It is unfortunate that the Administration has singled out a vibrant American industry as an easy target to vilify by evoking simplistic stereotypes. Even worse, the White House has chosen to dampen the economic benefits, shared by workers across income levels, generated by the industry.”
About the Alliance for Aviation Across America:
Formed in 2007, the Alliance for Aviation Across America is a non-profit, non-partisan coalition of over 7,000 individuals representing businesses, agricultural groups, FBO’s, small airports, elected officials, charitable organizations, and leading business and aviation groups that support the interests of the general aviation community across various public policy issues.