Originally Posted by
satchip
If I remember correctly that plan was to take all the slots at JFK, not just Delta's and auction them in order to reduce peak time congestion. You are correct that it was a government taking and thus wrong, but there is a HUGE difference between an auction to the highest bidder to a virtual gift to a favored constituency.
You don't remember correctly. It was an auction of US Air Carrier slots to the highest bidder at the very low point of US airline economics. Foreign airlines were exempt.
How about we keep this discussion non-denominational...
There's enough dirt to go around on both parties, and I'd hate to see this thread locked because the misrepresentations of one side were corrected!
