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- <text id=89TT1569>
- <title>
- June 19, 1989: Business Notes:Airlines
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 19, 1989 Revolt Against Communism
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- AIRLINES
- Cutting Them Off at the Gate
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Do some airlines have too large a share of business at
- certain airports? The Justice Department showed its concern
- about that possibility last week, when it opposed Eastern Air
- Lines' proposed $75 million sale of eight gates at the
- Philadelphia airport to USAir. Reason: USAir would control 23
- of the airport's 49 gates. Consumer activists contend that such
- dominance gives a carrier an unfair ability to boost fares.
- </p>
- <p> In a new study, the General Accounting Office reported last
- week that at airports with one or two dominant carriers, fares
- per passenger-mile were 27% higher than at other airports.
- Airline spokesmen disputed the conclusion. The Air Transport
- Association, an industry group, released a study showing that
- fares were only 3.8% higher at hub airports. Congressional
- subcommittees are studying both reports.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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