White House Wants Them To Pony Up $400 Million More
Airlines and their passengers already pay upwards of $2 billion
a year for enhanced security in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Now,
the government is using a little-known budget procedure to demand
another $400 million from the industry -- a straw that ATA CEO Jim
May says just won't fly.
Get on with it, already. That seems to be the message from
Florida Congressman John Mica's House Aviation Subcommittee to the
FAA about developing anti-missile systems for civilian
aircraft.
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