Quotes from an Aviation Week Editorial written by Gorden Bethune, retired chairman and CEO Continental Airlines.
"It's embarrassing for Transportation Dept ideologues to push slot auctions as the solution to congestion and flight delays. "
Sorry. It isn't embarrassing, its realistic. No airport can handle more than 60 flights an hour. When more than 60 flights an hour are scheduled in or out, your plane will be late, or diverted to another airport. It's that simple. We need a fair system to assign airlines to slots. An auction sounds fair to me.
"Government must finance the FAA and ATC modernization equitable, not on the backs of ticket prices".
Why not pay for aviation facilities out of a tax on airline tickets? Again, sounds fair to me.
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