the cost of jet fuel is now the airline industry's largest operating cost with the average cost of a gallon of jet fuel up by 260 percent since 2000.
We had an opportunity yesterday--it was the 100th anniversary of Norman Borlaug's birth--to hold a symposium in his hono...
Well, see, Madam Secretary, last year when you were here, I asked you if there was a place that consumers or Americans c...
I would appreciate that today.
As a matter of fact, there is $100 per aircraft departure tax, which would cost our Nation's airlines roughly $1 billion...
But the cuts you decided to make were uniform across the board.
But wouldn't NextGen make the airline or make the whole issue more efficient, eliminate the need for towers if everythin...
Passengers already pay more than their fair share of taxes, roughly 20 percent on every fare that is out there.
So it would be fair to them to keep forward with this investment in their industry? Are we going to be able to keep ours...
Considering it is probably the safest form of travel in the Nation, we would certainly want to make it competitive, woul...
I was wondering as far as in a letter sent to Secretary LaHood on March 7th by the transportation infrastructure chairma...