Deputy Regional Administrator, Western-Pacific Region

The Western-Pacific Region encompasses four states Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada and three U.S. territories, which include Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Western-Pacific Region includes six of the nation's core airports; Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Phoenix, San Diego, and San Francisco.

As the Deputy Regional Administrator, Faviola “Favi” Garcia, provides FAA leadership in cross-organizational matters, representing the FAA with elected officials, aviation industry stakeholders, and the public, in addition to regional oversight. She provides leadership and oversight for the daily operations and regional aviation activities to include FAA internal and external engagement. 

Prior to this role, Ms. Garcia served as the Supervisory Senior Advisor to the Western Pacific Regional Administrator.  In this capacity, she provided advice and counsel to the management team on a myriad of regional emerging and historical issues.  She oversaw the region’s community engagement activities, routinely building and fostering working relationships with congressional offices, federal, state and local elected officials, airport executives, aviation state directors, airlines and industry partners, and members of the community at large.  She has 36 years of federal experience working at the FAA in various organizations.  

Her career and experience in the Regional Administrator’s Office spans over 20 years where she held various positions and worked on numerous high profile programs for the region.  Her work experience involves many projects that cross-organizational boundaries where she has provided leadership and horizontal integration expertise.  Under the direction of the Regional Administrator, Ms. Garcia stood up various governance councils to include the Western Pacific Region Runway Safety Governance Council and the FAA/Los Angeles International Airport Construction Projects Governance Council.  Both of which are three tiered and include team members ranking from highly technical boots-on-ground to the Executive level. Her 36 years of FAA experience have been the catalyst to her success in building effective, collaborative, and successful teams from the ground up.  

Among her most notable work, Ms. Garcia managed the Micronesia Technical Assistance program for nearly eight years before an agency realignment.  Ms. Garcia built alliances with team members and established a robust communications plan that included FAA subject matter experts from various disciplines, as well as high-ranking international officials, consultants and contractors, airlines and industry partners, and established frequent and open lines of communications with team members of the three remote island nations that operated six international airports across numerous times zones.  

Ms. Garcia has been an active member of the National Hispanic Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees for over 25 years, where she served as National President from October 2017 through September 2019. 

She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from California State University of Dominguez Hills and is the proud mother of three children, Alexia, Anthony and Julya, two of which are proud Air Traffic Controllers at the FAA.