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Article: Airlines Propose New Funding Mechanism.

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August 6, 2007
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The Air Transport Association opened the door nearly three weeks ago to a different funding mechanism for NextGen when Delta (DAL) COO James Whitehurst testified before the Senate Finance Committee, airlines were proposing a new funding proposal which would drop the $25 user fee for which they have been fighting. Although, he said they still favor a user fee, last week, ATA announced that new proposal which, according to ATA President and CEO James C. May, "returns to the user-pays, cost-based funding principles implemented by Congress in the 1970s."

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