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Industry presses gov’t for aid to combat terror
Declaring that “this meeting is not designed to ask for a bailout of the American airline industry,” U.S.

Declaring that “this meeting is not designed to ask for a bailout of the American airline industry,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Thomas Donohue said last month at the chamber’s second annual national aviation summit that “we’re simply asking government not to require the airline industry to absorb more than its fair share of the costs associated with the war on terrorism and defense of our homeland.”

According to Air Transport Association (ATA) figures, the financial impact of government policy on the airline industry is $6.5 billion, and Donohue stressed that “more mandated, unreimbursed costs threaten to knock out a wobbly airline industry that is vital to every one of us.”