AP, via CNN:
Delayed: Airport Delay-Reduction Plan
Transportation Department Grants Airlines' Request to Delay New Airport Landing- Fee Policy
February 07, 2008: 05:44 PM EST
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - The government has delayed by at least a month a plan to reduce congestion at the nation's airports following stiff resistance from airlines.
A new federal policy allowing airports to charge higher landing fees during peak periods, and for other reasons, aims to reduce delays by encouraging airlines to spread their flights more evenly throughout the day. The policy, which also encourages congested airports to include in landing fees the cost of expansion projects, had been scheduled to take effect in March, following a 45-day comment period.
But airline trade groups, which oppose the plan, requested a 30-day extension of the comment period. Their request has been granted, a Transportation Department spokesman said Thursday. Read more...
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