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by Terah Shelton on January 14, 2008
Travelers beware! It could cost you even more money to fly. According to an article on MSNBC, a new federal policy will make it possible for airports to charge landing fees based on the time flights land. Which means, if you like travel during peak flight times (10am - 6pm), you will pay more to land at certain congested airports.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters said the policy will make it easier for airports to reduce delays by encouraging airlines to spread their flights more evenly throughout the day. Delays in 2007 were the second worst since comparable data began being collected in 1995.
The new policy will encourage congested airports in New York and elsewhere to include the cost of projects designed to expand capacity in the new landing fees now instead of after construction has been completed, Peters said.
The policy also will allow operators, such as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, to distribute landing fee revenue among the different facilities, she said.
A spokesman from the Air Transport Association of America was not immediately available to comment Monday afternoon.
The proposed policy change will be open to public comment for 45 days before it is finalized.
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