Led by highly respected lobbyist Todd Hauptli, the AAAE legislative affairs team--the Airport Legislative Alliance--represents America's airport system on Capitol Hill. The ALA staff puts its extensive experience to work every day to advance the airport agenda in Washington. Over the past decade, the ALA team has led efforts that have resulted in a doubling of the size of the Airport Improvement Program, a 50 percent increase in the federal cap on Passenger Facility Charges, billions in congressional appropriations for inline explosives detection system (EDS) installations in airports, and the repeated defeat of attempts to expand the reach of FAA and TSA into areas traditionally controlled by airports to name just a few.
