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Airlines Look To Passengers in Fight for ATC Reform

JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes notes airlines can warn hundreds of millions of passengers of pitfalls of current ATC system.

Suboptimal flight paths resulted in 229,000 metric tons of additional fuel consumption and 721,000 metric tons of avoidable CO2 emissions in Europe from 2015 to 2017. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-ND) by Pierre PRESTAT)

By Kerry Lynch • Editor, AIN monthly magazine

September 14, 2016

U.S. airlines hope to reach out to millions of passengers for help in their fight for air traffic reform, JetBlue Airways president and CEO Robin Hayes told attendees of Tuesday's 2016 Airlines for America Commercial Aviation Industry Summit in Washington, D.C. Hayes insisted that airlines will continue to campaign for an independent organization to run the nation's air traffic control system and that airline customers could play a role in the debate. “We absolutely are not giving up on this,” he said. “We have to do a better job as airlines in engaging our customers and fliers and letting them know that the thirty-minute delay they just experienced or that canceled flight…is going to get worse...and the economic value that aviation brings to this country will start to get jeopardized by our inability to have a state-of-the-art air traffic control system."

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