Cleveland National Air Show, Inc. v. United States Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

The Cleveland National Air Show challenges an order of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) denying its request for a waiver that would allow it to conduct its air show within a eongressionally mandated no-fly zone surrounding Jacobs Field, the home of the Cleveland Indians. Because the FAA reasonably interpreted the waiver provision and because the Air Show’s other challenges to the waiver decision are unconvincing, we affirm.

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Congress has charged the FAA with “promot[ing] safe flight of civil aircraft in air commerce,” 49 U.S.C. § 44701(a), and has granted…