Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"Your e-mail provides no factual information about what is needed for system transformation, but instead makes a blatant attempt to encourage ill-informed support from people who are justified in their frustration with this summer's unprecedented airline delays."

Source: Ed Bolen, president of the National Business Aviation Association, in a terse letter to United Airlines CEO Glenn Tilton regarding the carrier's "Contact Congress" initiative, asking passengers to take up the fight bandied by the Air Transport Association and other pro-airline interests, to impose user fees on corporate aviation. In-flight magazines for airlines such as United, Continental, American, Northwest, and US Airways have featured editorials from the CEOs of those respective carriers, each with a common message: you, the passenger, are helping to pay for corporate bigwigs flying around in their bizjets, taxing an already-stressed air traffic control network.

FMI: Read Bolen's Letter, www.aviationacrossamerica.org, www.nbaa.org, www.airlines.org