Peter Bunce, president of the General Aviation Manufacturers Assn., told European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (Ebace) attendees that the failure of the U.S. government to implement the Bilateral Safety Agreement with the European Union could cost jobs in the U.S. The sticking point seems to be the "outsourcing" of maintenance work by U.S. aircraft operators to foreign repair stations. But, Bunce notes, there are three times as many European Aviation Safety Agency-certified repair stations in the U.S. than there are FAA-certified repair stations within the EU, because more aircraft come from overseas to the U.S. for work than the other way around.
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