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Excerpt from Reauthorization of the Airport Improvement Program and the Passenger Facility Charge Program: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Aviation of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session; May 19, May 26, 1993
A consensus has developed that airport development funding from all sources should average $10 billion a year for the next several years to prevent a significant deterioration in the ability of the airport system to move air traffic efficiently due to a lack of capacity to adequately meet demand. Our nation's airport system is already not as efficient as it needs to be. The most recent National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (npias) finds that 23 major airports are unacceptably congested (more than hours of flight delays per year). And the resulting delays cost our economy billions of dollars a year in lost productivity. Unless capacity at our airports is increased substantially. The number of airports with unacceptable delay will grow to 40 airports by the year 2000.
Lack of capacity does not just mean inconvenient delays. It means people have to pay more to get to where they need to go when they want to. Congestion restricts competition among carriers and intensifies unsatisfied demand increasing the value and the price of travelling. Further. In hearings held by the Subcommittee last February on the Financial Condition of the Airline Industry (committee publication number 103-1) a number of expert witnesses testified that one of the principal problems in the industry was a lack of adequate airport infrastructure.
In recent years. The overall poor economy and the airlines financial problems have had the perverse effect of alleviating or slackening some of the problems associated with an inefficient and congested airport system. When the economy and the airlines' condition improves. Most analysts and observers expect the slack to be taken up and the negative consequences of airport congestion and inefficiency to manifest themselves again.
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