From Aviationweek.com 2006 March
The Air Transport Association this week is scheduled to unveil its own proposal for financing the FAA, a package that for the first time will have the endorsement of all ATA airlines - not just the legacy carriers. Southwest Chairman Herb Kelleher told an audience at the FAA Forecast Conference last week that the airlines have all agreed to support an ATA proposal for implementing user fees. Kelleher said the proposal will have a "straightforward funding mechanism" that will not be anti-competitive. Kelleher also said that getting the backing of all the airlines on such a proposal is an "historic breakthrough."
A united ATA membership is a significant turnaround from the last time the user fee debate was waged in the 1990s. The last debate pitted the low-cost carriers against the legacy carriers in a contentious battle that resulted in net tax increases for airline customers.
"The last time the user-fee debate was a civil war [between airlines]," National Business Aviation Association President and CEO Ed Bolen said. But then there were "striking" differences among the airlines. Southwest and other low-cost carriers tended to have shorter-haul flights and lower ticket prices. Now they have longer-haul flights, and the legacy carriers have lowered their ticket prices.
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