Business View Magazine - Mar 2024

growth” proposal to abolish it reach her desk. “On behalf of the tens of thousands of New York-based members and affiliate members, commercial service and general aviation airports, fixed based operators, consultants, engineers, pilots, corporations and various aviation industries and professionals, and county employees among our combined organizations, thank you for your steadfast support for New York’s Aviation industry,” the letter concluded. Read the group’s Letter to Hochul. “Instead of celebrating and advertising this successful economic and business development strategy, some want to repeal the AJA, which threatens to cripple the state’s aviation industry and send a signal to businesses that New York can’t be trusted to commit long term to tax policies that provide financial certainty to would-be investors in the New York economy,” the letter continued. Noting the governor’s “tremendous support for aviation through the Upstate Airport Economic Development and Revitalization Initiative and myriad of other pro-aviation programs and policies,” the groups urged Hochul to demand reinstatement of the AJA should the “anti-job, anti- 16 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 11, ISSUE 03