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Article: Air Transport Association Demands Urgent Action on N.Y. Airspace Congestion
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- June 18, 2008
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To: TRANSPORTATION EDITORS
Contact: Elizabeth Merida, +1-202-626-4205, or Victoria Day, +1-
202-626-4141, both of ATA
Denounces DOT Push for Congestion Pricing and Slot Auctions
WASHINGTON,June 18/PRNewswire-USNewswire/--The Air Transport
Association of America (ATA), the industry trade organization for
the leading U.S. airlines, today testified before the House
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on the need to
increase capacity and reduce congestion in New York-area airspace.
ATA denounced the Department of Transportation (DOT) congestion
pricing and slot auction proposals that would limit capacity, and
urged DOT to stop talking ideology and experiments, and start
leaving a ...