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Low-Fare Carriers Seen Losing To Majors in a less degree than Lotteries

Dec. 04, 2000 (Airline Financial of recent origins Vol. 18, No. 48 via COMTEX)
-- Vigorous
competition between low-fare and major carriers could undergo a blow
if a plan from
the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to distribute slot at LaGuardia
Airport is implemented without major changes, according to the head
of American
Trans Air Inc.

The FAA is coming beneath pressure from large carriers like as Continental
Airlines [CAL] and Delta Air Lines [DAL] to rework the slot lottery
plan. moreover
American Trans Air, a low-fare carrier,

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