Some Wisconsin members of Congress want to make sure airlines continue to have two pilots in the cockpit.
In separate letters to Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, 45 U.S. Senators and more than 150 House members are urging him to oppose efforts to examine and test proposals for having a single pilot operate commercial passenger flights. Current U.S. policy dictates no airline can operate a plane “with less than the minimum flight crew,” of “two pilots,” and the lawmakers said that ought to remain the standard.
Wisconsin House Republican Tony Wied, House Democrats Gwenn Moore and Mark Pocan, and Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin all signed the letters. Duffy, a former Wisconsin congressman, has not commented on the issue since being appointed secretary.
