Mon, May 19, 2008
Opens Comment Period For Slot Auctions At JFK, EWR
In a wide-ranging Department of Transportation news release
Friday, DOT Secretary Mary Peters announced three new measures
addressing delays at the three major New York-area airports.
Peters announced DOT has posted the final order to temporarily
cap scheduled flights at Newark Liberty Airport at an average of 83
per hour from June 1 until October 2009. She noted while the
measure will spread flight schedules more evenly throughout the
day, it still allows 30 operations per day above what was offered
at the airport last summer.
Peters also said DOT will spend $2 million to study ways to add
transit connections to New York’s Stewart Airport, about 90
miles north of Manhattan. She observed the facility has the runways
and facilities to ease pressure at the region's major airports, if
only passengers could get there more conveniently.
Finally, Peters announced DOT has opened a 60-day comment window
on a plan for landing slots at JFK and Newark. The department
proposes giving airlines already serving the airports up to 20
slots per day, and auctioning the rest over 10 years. After the
decade of protection for existing airline investments ended,
presumeably DOT would broaden the auction.
Peters said the airlines "...would receive a 10-year interest in
some of the world’s most valuable aviation assets, free of
charge, free of question and free of hassle." She added that
other airlines would get a chance to compete in an attractive
aviation market, but to do so they would have to make investments
that benefit every existing carrier.
We should be hearing the response from the Air Transport
Association any moment now...
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