United Airlines/US Airways merger: hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, June 21 and 22, 2000U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004 - Broj stranica: 147 |
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air service aircraft airline industry AirTran Airways Airways merger alliances America West American Answer antitrust assets Atlanta benefits Chairman Charlotte commitment Committee communities compete competition competitor Congress consumers cost carrier create currently customer service DC Air Delta Department of Transportation deregulation divestiture Dulles Fare codes prefixed flights flying FOER frequent flyer frequent flyer program gates global going Goodwin impact increase issue JOHN MCCAIN Johnson Justice Department LEONARD low cost low cost carrier major airlines major carriers marketplace MAX CLELAND MCFADDEN merged million non-stop nonstop service O'Hare operations passengers percent Pittsburgh Pittsburgh International Airport proposed merger Reagan National Airport RESPONSE TO WRITTEN result routes seats Senator GORTON Senator HOLLINGS Senator KERRY serve SLADE GORTON slot exemptions Star Alliance structure fares sumers Thank tion traffic transaction U.S. SENATOR United Airlines United-US Airways United's Washington Wolf WRITTEN QUESTIONS SUBMITTED
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Stranica 137 - ... LaGuardia and O'Hare, 83 percent and 85 percent respectively of the gates are the subject of exclusive use agreements. According to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA), all 42 gates available for jet operations at Reagan National are leased to the incumbent tenant airlines until 2014. Reagan National Airport: Capacity to Handle Additional Flights and Impact on Other Area Airports (Letter Report, 09/17/99, GAO/RCED-99-234). Although MWAA officials are committed to addressing...
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Stranica 124 - Secretary may investigate and decide whether an air carrier, foreign air carrier, or ticket agent has been or is engaged in an unfair or deceptive practice or an unfair method of competition in air transportation or the sale of air transportation.
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Stranica 137 - ... aircraft which total to approximately 760 commercial operations per day. The 24 daily exemption slots provided under Air 21 constitute only a three percent increase in slots. America West hopes to stimulate competition to the West at Reagan National with the slot exemptions it received under Air 21. However, its ability to do so is limited by the fact that it can operate only three daily round trips rather than the five it requested from the Department of Transportation. As a result of slot restrictions,...
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Stranica 135 - What's critically important here is that it takes only one of the six giant lines to reverse the hike. In effect, each of those six lines has veto power over price hikes in the entire national airline marketplace. If any one of them doesn't salute, the hike is quickly run back down the flagpole and returned to the closet. Clearly, the fewer the number of giant lines, the less chance that any given price hike will be vetoed. And. in a worst-case scenario, a concentration down to only three super-giants...
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