summit agenda

Aircraft Maintenance Outsourcing Summit

Presented by Business Travel Coalition & International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Washington, DC - February 11, 2008 - 9:00a to 12:30p - Omni Shoreham Hotel

AGENDA

8:15 Registration

9:00 Welcome
Kevin Mitchell, Chairman, Business Travel Coalition; Master of Ceremonies

9:06 Introductions
Don Treichler, Airline Division Director, International Brotherhood of Teamsters

9:10 Remarks
James P. Hoffa, General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters

9:35 Address
Congressman James Oberstar, Chairman, U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Senator Claire McCaskill, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee & Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee

10:10 Special Investigative Report
William McGee, Author, Consumer Reports: An Accident Ready to Happen

10:40 BREAK (15 minutes)

10:55 Panel One – A Review of the System - Moderator: Greg Feith

• Deborah A. P. Hersman, Member, NTSB
• Linda Goodrich, Vice President, Professional Airways Systems Specialists (PASS)
• Steve Purvinas, Federal Secretary, Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Assoc. (ALAEA)
• Sarah MacLeod, Executive Director, Aeronautical Repair Station Association
• Chris Moore, Airline Mechanic, Continental Airlines
• John Goglia, Former Board Member, NTSB

11:40 STRETCH BREAK (3 minutes)

11:45 Panel Two – Rationale for Reform - Moderator: Greg Feith

• Steve Purvinas, Federal Secretary, Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Assoc. (ALAEA)
• John Conley, Airline Division Director, Transportation Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO
• Stacie H. Soumbeniotis, Democratic Staff Director, House Subcommittee on Aviation
• Rich Petrovsky, Airline Mechanic, United Airlines
• Sarah MacLeod, Executive Director, Aeronautical Repair Station Association
• John Goglia, Former Board Member, NTSB

12:25 Closing - Kevin Mitchell, Chairman, Business Travel Coalition; Master of Ceremonies