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Article: Commentary: Premature to Change Funding Mechanism.
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- Very Light Jet Report
- Article date:
- March 3, 2008
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Kathryn B. Creedy
While the air traffic control system may have long ago broken down, it is premature to change the funding mechanism, especially when it results in fewer funds. More troubling, perhaps, is the industry and government attitude that users can be their personal ATM machines. While airlines decry the fact they pay for the majority of the system, that is only fair since the system is built and run largely on their behalf. Thus they are already paying their fair share as are those who do not get the priority use of the airspace the way airlines do.
Regardless of 40 years of failed modernization to cope with increasing traffic, those who ...