Wed, Aug 31, 2011
ACI-NA Submits Comments In Delta Air Lines/US Airways
Proceeding And Petition For Waiver
Airports Council International – North America (ACI-NA)
has submitted comments in response to the DOT's Notice on its grant
of the joint petition of Delta Air Lines’ and US
Airways’ slot swap at Ronald Reagan Washington National
Airport (DCA) and New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA).
ACI-NA’s comments stressed that the DOT should not grant
the waiver petition set forth in its Notice as it fails to
recognize the primary role of local airport proprietors in managing
congestion at their airports and seeks unlawfully to impose
restrictions on the proprietary rights of the Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey and the Metropolitan Washington Airports
Authority to control how their facilities at LGA and DCA are
used.
“ACI-NA has advocated that slots should be treated as
community assets that are used to benefit the airport/community of
their location, and not the airlines,” said association
president Greg Principato (pictured). “As such, the
interests of the operating airport proprietor should be considered
in evaluating the treatment of a petition by air carriers for the
exchange of slots.”
Principato also noted that airport proprietors have been given
adequate market alternatives to resolve capacity constraints under
the DOT’s Amended Rates and Charges Policy. “It is
especially important that such market alternatives not be distorted
by a system that allows those most responsible for creating
congestion problems to achieve even greater economic benefits by
being given property rights in new slots that are created at the
very airports which their flights caused to become
congested,” he said.
“The airport proprietors are in the best position to
manage the use of the facilities they planned, designed, funded,
built and currently operate,” he concluded.
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