Citing a need for greater transparency and discussion, the Los Angeles World Airports Board of Airport Commissioners announced at a June 5 meeting its decision to defer a vote on implementing landing fees at Van Nuys Airport in Southern California.

I had the opportunity and privilege several days ago to advocate on behalf of AOPA members before the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Aviation Subcommittee on Capitol Hill.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on June 11 passed the bipartisan Mental Health in Aviation Act of 2025. The bill now heads to the full House for consideration.

The FAA has updated the MedXPress system to streamline the medical certification process, the first of “many steps” the agency plans to take to make it “clearer and faster.”

The forty-eighth annual Air Race Classic, an event in which teams of women pilots compete in a multi-leg cross-country contest, will kick off from H L Sonny Callahan Airport in Fairhope, Alabama, on June 17. Racers will complete a course of about 2,108 nautical miles that crosses nine states, ending at Felts Field in Spokane, Washington, on June 20.

City officials in Zanesville, Ohio, opted on May 27 to indefinitely postpone a final vote on an ordinance proposed in March that would establish the first landing fees ever charged by the city's historic airport. The delay, which could become permanent, followed a concerted effort by local pilots and AOPA to marshal focused, commonsense arguments against the measure.

Somewhere between wearing a diaper in an oversized replica of retired airline captain “Sully” Sullenberger’s childhood bedroom and earning a Boeing 737 type rating, Nathan Fielder wants us to take a hard look at interpersonal dynamics in the cockpit.