Flying Mag
Zach Vasile
09 June 2025
Bryan Bedford calls out organization’s culture in answers to questionnaire from U.S. Senate.
Republic Airways CEO Bryan Bedford, President Donald Trump’s nominee for FAA chief, had some harsh words for the agency he hopes to lead, singling out alleged “malaise,” “quiet resignation” in the face of serious problems, and a lack of direction.
“There appears to be no incentive for anyone at FAA to take any innovation risk for fear that it could fail,” he wrote. “You could say there was an ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ attitude, but that has morphed into a quiet resignation that we ‘can’t fix it, but we can do our very best to make the system work safely today’ mindset. Ensuring the safety and the modernization of our air traffic control [ATC] system is too critical to continue down the same path.”
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