Airport Law: The Complaint Process (Part 13 / Part 16)

Airport law is real estate, regulatory, administrative, public finance, municipal, civil rights, environmental, open records, criminal, constitutional, land use, and virtually all other legal specialties operating under the watchful eye of the Federal Aviation Administration. The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 assigned the FAA responsibility for the regulation of air commerce. Communities, referred to as airport sponsors, that receive property or funding from the FAA or DoD for the development of an airport commit to more, much more than a typical economic development project. This course, presented by Jetlaw® Senior Attorney C. Edward Young and moderated by Jetlaw® Partner Michael ("Mike") Kolich, provides an introduction into the process the FAA established to enforce airport sponsors' promises to "maintain a high degree of safety and efficiency" at the airport and critically to ensure "the public reasonable access to the airport."  The process looks like civil litigation, but it is not.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss the origin of economic non-discrimination and the exclusive rights prohibition

2. Identify the differences between Part 13 Informal Resolution and a Part 16 Formal Complaint

3. Review FAA Part 16 precedent and threshold issues

4. Discuss FAA Advisory Circular 5190.6b (Change 2) and key terms applied to airport administration of available property, including land banking

5. Apply potential hypotheticals in the Part 16 environment