| Our Airports have excess capacity, which is not being | | | | their hands are tied behind their backs with mandates |
| used due to the fact that many airliners sit during the | | | | from the DOT, Congress, EPA, Homeland Security, it |
| nighttime and fly during the day. This is only one | | | | is amazing they are still able to even function.Airports |
| problem we have that can be solved through better | | | | are an integral part of our transportation system. |
| optimization. You can go to any large airport in this | | | | Many Airports have become great transportation |
| country and see how few aircraft are taking off in | | | | hubs as needed by the patrons who frequent them. |
| the middle of the night.This is a problem at Airports, | | | | Chicago, Newark, LaGuardia, Reagan, San Francisco, |
| where aircraft are usually parked in the middle of the | | | | Hawaii, PHX, and many others have figured out how |
| night and fewer and fewer red eye flights these | | | | to move people in and out quickly and connecting |
| days. Most of this is due to competition of the low | | | | them to the desired ground transportation. Likewise |
| fair airlines. It would be good if we could figure out a | | | | those which are in close proximity to bus-train |
| way to use these resources better.There is | | | | stations hubs or have incorporated them into the |
| tremendous growth at our airports for instance | | | | overall plan seem to really do well for the traveling |
| Dallas, Las Vegas, Atlanta, San Francisco, LAX, etc. | | | | public. Trams, which go from the airport to |
| And many other smaller airports Akron/Canton, Long | | | | downtown or to the bus or train terminals and |
| Beach, Flint Michigan, etc. are seeing incredible growth. | | | | parking structures for rent-a-cars, really serve there |
| The FAA is in need of less regulation from other | | | | nearby cities well. This brings in business to the cities |
| bureaucracies to do its job as well as some | | | | and completes the transportation loop. Economic |
| privatization. The EPA routinely withholds monies to | | | | Development Associations, which work closely with |
| airports until they comply with NPDES permits with | | | | their airports will often are able to encompass the |
| EPA and will withhold funds or add in those costs in | | | | needs of the people, businesses and government into |
| their funding as mandates. The problem is that first | | | | a seamless.We must keep the bureaucracy away |
| you need to expand the airport and thus increase | | | | from the entrepreneurial spirit and those who work in |
| revenues then you can solve these other issues. | | | | the Aviation and Transportation Industry so they can |
| Having been around airports all my life and discussing | | | | streamline the system and find efficiencies in the |
| things with small, medium and large Airport Managers | | | | flow of air travel. Think about it. |
| and Executives their issues are not being served and | | | | |