AA quoted in Airport Policy News
Airport Policy and Security News #120
“IATA doubled down on its quirky definition of ‘smarter’ regulation by asking not only for a free ride from the suppliers, but an inside track against competitors. It is not called a legacy industry for nothing. That every year IATA again has to plead that the IATA Worldwide Slot Guidelines be adopted should tell you all you need to know about the falsity of its title. Perhaps the fact that it is a naked attempt to distort the market, whilst allowing incumbents to benefit from windfall gains, is so blindingly obvious that even protectionist-minded governments can see through it. There have even been calls to break up slot monopolies at airports (a la BAA and AT&T) in such irresponsible, anti-business rags as the Financial Times. Could the tide be turning?”
—Andrew Charlton, “The IATA AGM—Zigging Not Zagging; Canning Not Cunning,”
Aviation Intelligence Reporter, July 2017
