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Our mission is to improve airport safety, capacity and access by addressing local airport community issues, and closing gaps in federal and state airport regulation to protect our airport system for future generations.
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Constitutional Protection! Currently, congress does not consider airports as Interstate Commerce under the US Constitution as they do for all other modes of transportation like railroads, highways, waterways, pipelines, powerlines and communications. AeroBlue is working hard to change this.
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Improve local planning to ensure Airport-Compatible Development and address airport community noise concerns.
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Organize support for airport improvements.
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These important measures apply to both General Aviation and Commercial Aviation airports!
Your airport system delivers economic and quality of life benefits to communities across the country. Yet congress has failed to deliver fundamental measures to protect public and private investment in airports. Each year, many important small local airports are closed, and are gone forever. After years of inaction to protect and improve airports, we conducted a benchmarking analysis to compare airports to other transportation. We compared existing advocacy efforts with those of other, more successful national activist groups. MORE MOST BE DONE.
Effective advocacy takes resources, time and organization. Please support us to cover travel expenses, research materials, legal fees, meeting preparation and entrance fees. It all adds up, and we need your help to continue building focus and publicity on the complex issues faced by General Aviation and the airport system we depend on.
About Simeon Hitzel and Andrew Kondrach:
Simeon Hitzel has been active in local and state Aviation Advocacy for nearly 10 years. His experiences as a private pilot, airline traveler, business manager, and taxpayer increased his concern about lack of airport oversight, planning, forethought, and compassion. Sim has been working with local, state and federal representatives to help ensure our airports thrive. While working with local airports, community leaders, and state legislators to address issues, it became apparent that there are the same wide-spread problems across our country that no one was addressing.
Andrew Kondrach has been active in Aviation for over 20 years, as an Airframe and Powerplant mechanic, sales, Airport Manager, Aviation Museum Founder and Director, and industry advocacy working with local, state and federal representatives. While traveling to airports and aviation businesses in five states, Andy saw an industry in crisis, declining new pilot starts, airport closures, increasing insurance and legal costs, and a tremendous gap in industry expectations and reality.
Both Sim and Andy notices there has been no proactive legislation proposed. It seems nobody was watching the shop.
Then Meigs Field was destroyed by Chicago's Mayor Daley.
It was an alarm that we needed a fresh approach. The rule of Law was broken, and still nothing happened. While the City of Chicago was asking the federal government for $15 Billion for a new O'Hare Runway, Daley destroyed Chicago's best General Aviation Reliever airport in the dead of night, even while aircraft were in flight to land. What should have been a criminal or terrorist act, was whitewashed with taxpayer monies. Real and permenant damage was done to our national transportation system and our national economy. After much research, we found gaping holes in legislation, and no existing organization or process to engage in the political process and address these gaps.
AeroBlue was created.
AeroBlue.Org is the only organization focused on addressing airport issues as well as airport community concerns. AeroBlue will be launching a series of programs focused on protecting and enhancing our airport system. This is America's Airport System, responsible for nearly 10% of the US economy and nearly 10 million jobs. 730 Million passenger trips and one fifth of US cargo traveled by airplane. Airports are Interstate Commerce. Airports, even small ones like Meigs Field in Chicago are International Commerce. But this needs to be zealously represented and defended. This is a right provided in Article 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution. Your Constitution. The Founding Fathers got it right. And we need to elect people who support airports. And we need to improve the state and local planning to address community concerns.
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