Regionals feel the squeeze.(commuter airlines face capacity pricing from airports)(Brief Article)

Publication: Airline Business

Publication Date: 04-JUN-01

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Nowhere was the Federal Aviation Administration's capacity benchmark study taken more seriously than in Tampa Bay, 800 miles from Washington and the site of the Regional Airline Association's annual general meeting.

For the RAA, the report had one overriding implication. It meant that "the spectre of congestion pricing," as association chairman Andy Price called it, hung over the meeting and its 250 participants.

Such pricing would squeeze out regionals from many airports; they simply cannot afford to spread the resultant higher operating costs over the relatively few seats they...

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