Sun, Apr 20, 2008
ACI-NA Statement on DOT SNPRM to Create Slot Auctions at
LaGuardia
Airports Council International - North America (ACI-NA)
appreciates the Department of Transportation's continuing efforts
to alleviate congestion and passenger delays.
ACI-NA maintains that capacity expansion, both at the airport
and in the national airspace system, is the most effective means of
reducing congestion. However, in those instances where such
measures are infeasible or not available in the short-term, airport
proprietors are in the best position to implement market-based,
congestion management programs at their facilities to reduce
delays.
ACI-NA commends the Department's recent proposal to amend the
1996 Policy Regarding Airport Rates and Charges to recognize
airport proprietors' role in managing congestion at their
airports.
For this same reason, however, ACI-NA does not support, in its
current form, the Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
(SNPRM), to create slot auctions at LaGuardia airport. The Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) has broad authority to regulate the
airspace of the United States; however this proposed rule does not
recognize the inextricable link between the use of the airport
infrastructure and airspace. The FAA has the right to limit the
number of operations allowed at a constrained airport. However, it
is the airport proprietor's preeminent right to manage the
facilities it owns and operates within those restrictions and
according to applicable law."
The ACI-NA represents local, regional and state governing bodies
that own and operate commercial airports in the United States and
Canada. ACI-NA member airports enplane more than 95 percent of the
domestic and virtually all the international airline passenger and
cargo traffic in North America. Almost 400 aviation-related
businesses are also members of the association, which is the
largest of the five worldwide regions of Airports Council
International.
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