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IMMEDIATE RELEASE ACI-NA Applauds
Mayors for Advocating Federal Legislation
to Increase Airport Funding.
Resolution Supports
Capacity-Enhancing Projects Responding
to passage of the resolution, "Providing
Adequate Funding Sources to Address
Capacity Needs in the National Airspace
System through FAA Reauthorization,"
Airports Council International-North
America President Greg Principato said:
"We applaud the U.S. Conference of Mayors
for sending a strong message to Congress
by adopting this important resolution.
Lawmakers have an opportunity now to
ensure that airports have the financial
tools necessary to fund much-needed
capital improvement projects that will
accommodate the one billion passengers who
are forecasted to travel by air in
2015. The
nation's aviation infrastructure is
already stretched to the breaking point
&endash; as evidenced by the record number
of flight delays that are being reported
by the government. Unless we make
significant investments in infrastructure,
such as building new runways, taxiways and
terminals, airports will become
chokepoints. Airports estimate they will
need to spend $87.4 billion in
capacity-enhancing projects over the next
five years. PFCs are a proven
mechanism to fund these projects that will
ultimately increase safety, reduce airport
congestion, and promote new
competition. Increasing
the PFC rate ceiling is good public
policy. It will promote local
economic growth and directly benefit
passengers." About ACI-NA
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WASHINGTON,
DC (June 25) &endash;At the association's
annual meeting, the U.S. Conference of
Mayors adopted a resolution calling on the
U.S. Congress to raise the amount of the
passenger facility charge (PFC) that
airports can collect from
passengers. A majority of airport
improvement projects are paid for with the
PFC &endash; a local user fee that is
included in the overall cost of the
airline ticket. The resolution was
submitted by John Hickenlooper, mayor of
Denver; Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of Los
Angeles; Richard Daley, mayor of Chicago;
Shirley Franklin, mayor of Atlanta;
Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City;
Chuck Reed, mayor of San Jose; John
Street, mayor of Philadelphia; and Robert
Walkup, mayor of Tucson.
The
mission of Airports Council International
- North America (ACI-NA) is to advocate
policies and provide services that
strengthen the ability of air carrier
airports to serve their passengers,
customers and communities. 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. Nearly 400 aviation-related
businesses are also members of the
association, which is the largest of the
five worldwide regions of Airports Council
International Eileen Denne,
edenne@aci-na.aero
(202) 293-4537