We are looking forward to our first post summer luncheon meeting.  Please make a special effort to join us and meet Travel Weekly’s new aviation editor, Michael Fabey.

What:   NAAPRA Lunch Meeting
Who:    New Travel Weekly Aviation editor Michael Fabey
When:   Thursday, September 18, noon to 2:00
Where:  Lufthansa-Swiss International Conference Room

Empire State Building
350 Fifth Avenue , 27th floor
Suite 2701
RSVP:   By September 15

There is no charge for lunch for members.  Guests of members will be $15.00.

For your information, here’s the announcement about Mike:

WASHINGTON - Award-winning business journalist Michael Fabey has joined Travel Weekly's Washington Bureau as senior editor, aviation.
Fabey will be responsible for ongoing news coverage of the airline industry and related matters, including legislative and regulatory issues in Washington .
Fabey most recently covered transportation and aerospace news for the McGraw-Hill publications Aviation Week and Aerospace Daily and for Commonwealth Business Media's Traffic World and Air Cargo World.
Previously, as military reporter and assistant team leader, business, for the Savannah ( Ga. ) Morning News in 2005, he was an Investigative Reporters & Editors finalist for stories about aircraft carrier construction problems.
Fabey, who grew up in Philadelphia , graduated from Trenton State College in Ewing , N.J. and began his journalism career working for several small papers in Pennsylvania .
During a three-year stint as an environmental and transportation reporter for the Philadelphia Business Journal, he wrote award-winning investigative and feature stories on mysterious dolphin deaths and port authority spending abuses.
Later, as business editor and projects reporter for the Fayetteville
(N.C.) Observer-Times, he received national, regional and state awards for a series about government failures to enforce pesticide laws. 
He has traveled extensively in Latin America , speaks and write Portuguese, and has worked as a writer, editor and columnist for print and Internet news outlets in Brazil .  
His freelance contributions have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, AmericaEconomia, Latin Finance, World Trade and other publications.
An avid cyclist, he lives in Spotsylvania , Va. , with his wife and two children.