“Scenic overflights at national parks, though pricey, prove popular with tourists. But they have gone largely unregulated despite a 20-year-old law requiring the National Park Service and the Federal Aviation Administration to craft management plans for each of the parks that host commercial scenic overflights, according to a recent U.S. Court of Appeals ruling.
The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed two years ago by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, targeting six parks, including Bryce, that accounted for about a third of the 47,000 commercial flights at destinations administered by the park service.”
