KALITTA AIR

Trade (domestic/foreign)

Continued monitoring the following issues and stayed in position to discuss with the Michigan Delegation to Congress when appropriate: plans that could excessively restrict and regulate flights by U.S. non-military cargo air carriers that are shipping internationally throughout the world pursuant to U.S. contracts - especially now with the continuing challenge and response necessary for the COVID pandemic. In addition to the COVID responses, many of these non-pandemic related contracts are for U.S. military and humanitarian missions. Additionally, we continued discussions to remind the delegation of the importance of supplemental carriers to U.S. military and humanitarian missions, and the importance of CRAF - Civil Reserve Air Fleet. We are also concerned about the continued use of foreign carriers for U.S. military cargo shipping, and contracts for maintenance and repair of U.S. Government aircraft that are awarded to foreign MROs. We are working again with Michigan members in the House and Senate to address concerns that we have with the extension of flight and duty restrictions from scheduled passenger aircraft to unscheduled cargo aircraft; and also, the extension of pilot training requirements for cargo carriers that are unrelated to their work as cargo pilots. And we are working to expand the operations for the Kalitta companies including but not limited to: Construction of new maintenance capacity, expansion of the Kalitta HQ and training capacity, and including any work necessary with the FAA and Wayne Co. Airport Authority for these expansions and infrastructure development. We expect the necessity to continue to engage with the Kalitta operations in helping to coordinate their national and international work with Air Cargo support in the COVID-19 crisis and as the pandemic conditions continue to improve.

TargetedSENATE · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Defense