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...Engen says the country urgently needs more airports and runways. But airport expansion around many major cities is almost prohibitively expensive and politically difficult if, indeed, suitable land can be found. This seems mostly a dream...
...political. Some $8 billion has accumulated in an aviation trust fund dedicated to improving air safety; the money has been piling up from an 8% tax on every airline passenger's ticket. Many in the aviation industry contend that Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, who is FAA Administrator Donald Engen's boss, has been cowed by the White House Office of Management and Budget into holding these assigned funds in reserve against the federal deficit. "Hogwash!" says OMB Director James Miller III. "If I had a bias, it would be toward air safety." Unfortunately, that bias has yet to be translated...
While flatly denying that air traffic is being delayed by a shortage of controllers, FAA Administrator Donald Engen sees a far more fundamental problem as the villain. The number of U.S. airlines has jumped from 38 in 1978, when deregulation began, to more than 250 today, vastly increasing the number of airliners flying. Contends Engen: "What this nation needs right now is to wake up to the fact that we're already short of places to land. We don't have enough airports...
...Engen argues that it is up to the cities, not the Federal Government, to take action. But few cities seem ready to meet the challenge. The last major airport built in the U.S. was Dallas/Fort Worth, opened...
...more distant locations.) Arguing that Congressmen must be available on short notice for last-minute votes, Crane asserted that "Supreme Court Justices and ambassadors are traditionally driven to the airport" and that their aides should not hog the spaces, forcing Senators and Representatives to scrounge for other spots. Engen, who doubtless is studying the problem carefully, has yet to reply. Perhaps the next item on Crane's agenda: box seats at Redskins games...