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Policy and Procedures Concerning the Use of Airport Revenue: Petition of Sarasota-Mantee Airport Authority to Allow Use of Airport Revenue for Direct Subsidy of Air Carrier Operations

FAA-03-16227

February 3, 2004

Re: Response of Sarasota Bradenton International Airport

The Air Transport Association, representing 27 passenger and cargo carriers object based on the position of Congress in the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. The assertion is that Congress "placed maximum reliance on competitive market forces and that the traveling public is best served by allowing the market to determine air service at a particular airport." SRQ believes that this is contradictory when one considers that the Federal Government has provided billions of dollars of direct subsidy over the last few years to airlines to keep them solvent rather than allowing the market forces to determine the number of carriers.

By: Fredrick Piccolo

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