Domestic Aviation: Barriers Continue to Limit Competition

Dillingham, Gerald L.

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Domestic Aviation: Barriers Continue to Limit Competition

1997-10-28
By Dillingham, Gerald L.

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Dillingham, Gerald L.
Corporate Contributors:

United States. Government Accountability Office
Subject/TRT Terms:

Airline Regulation Airlines Airport Operations Air Transportation Aviation Competition Enhancement Act Of 1997 Barriers To Entry (Competition) Competition Deregulation Leasing Market Dominance Marketing Strategies Perimeter Rules Policy, Legislation And Regulation Restrictive Gate Leasing Slot Allocation Slot Controls
Publication/ Report Number:

GAO/T-RCED-98-32
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21949/1403171
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Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

Eastern States ; United States ; West North Central States
Corporate Publisher:

United States. Government Accountability Office
Abstract:

Congressional testimony by Gerald L. Dillingham, Associate Director, Transportation Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office (GAO), on competition in the domestic airline industry. In October 1996, the GAO reported that certain industry practices, such as restrictive gate-leasing arrangements, impeded entry, particularly at a number of major airports in the East and upper Midwest. Based on these findings, the GAO made a number of recommendations aimed at addressing these barriers to entry and identified potential actions the Congress might wish to consider. The October 1996 report was one in a series of studies the GAO conducted over the 1980s and 1990s on domestic airline competition. Mr. Dillingham's testimony deals with findings from prior GAO work on operating barriers and recent actions taken by the Department of Transportation (DOT) in connection with those findings. It also addresses how the draft Aviation Competition Enhancement Act of 1997 and other initiatives seek to address those problems.
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