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1 CIS H 52147
TITLE: State of
Competition in the Airline Industry
CIS-NO: 2001-H521-47
SOURCE: Committee on the Judiciary. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: June 14, 23, 2000
LENGTH: iv+252 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1020-A;
1020-B
SUDOC: Y4.J89/1:106/126
GPO-STOCK-NO:
552-070-26449-3.
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 126.
Hearings to examine the status of airline industry competition under
deregulation, including assessment of airline competition in the Chicago, Ill.
airport system, in light of concerns about alleged anticompetitive behavior by
major airlines.
Also examines implications for airline industry
competition of proposed merger between United Airlines
and U.S. Airways.
Supplementary material (p. 44-45,
237-252) includes submitted statements, correspondence, and an article.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Airline industry competition issues
DESCRIPTORS:
UNITED AIRLINES; AIRLINES; TRANSPORTATION REGULATION; ECONOMIC
CONCENTRATION; AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS; COMPETITION; CHICAGO, ILL.
01-H521-47 TESTIMONY NO: 1 June 14, 2000 p. 6-20
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
FITZGERALD, PETER (Sen, R-Ill)
JACKSON, JESSE L., JR. (Rep, D-Ill)
SLAUGHTER, LOUISE MCINTOSH (Rep, D-NY)
STATEMENTS:
Views on airline competition issues,
citing concerns about industry anticompetitive trends.
CONTENT
NOTATION:
Airline industry competition issues
01-H521-47 TESTIMONY NO: 2 June 14, 2000 p.
20-44
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
NANNES, JOHN M. (Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
Antitrust Division, Department of Justice)
MCFADDEN, NANCY
E. (General Counsel, DOT)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Analysis of airline industry hub airport system; overview
of Federal procedures for evaluating proposed airline mergers
and acquisitions.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Airline
industry competition issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; FINANCIAL REGULATION;
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
01-H521-47 TESTIMONY NO: 3
June 14, 2000 p. 46-137
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
KARAGANIS, JOSEPH (attorney, representing
Suburban O'Hare Commission (SOC))
DEMPSEY, PAUL
(Professor, Law, University of Denver)
GEILS, JOHN
(Village President, Bensenville, Ill.; representing SOC)
GORDON, MIKE (Mayor, El Segundo, Calif)
KAHN, ALFRED E. (former Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board)
LEONARD, JOE (Chairman and CEO, AirTran Airways)
MCINERNEY, MARIANNE (Executive Director, National Business
Travel Association)
RODDEY, JIM (Chief Executive,
Allegheny County, Pa)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Concerns regarding major airlines domination over certain
hub airports, including Chicago O'Hare International Airport; problems with
barriers to new carrier entry in certain aviation markets, including problems
regarding major airline use of landing slots (related table, graphs, p. 60-73
passim).
Views on proposed United Airlines/U.S.
Airways merger (related tables, graphs, p. 98-110 passim); elaboration
on airline industry competition under deregulation.
CONTENT
NOTATION:
Airline industry competition issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
SUBURBAN O'HARE COMMISSION;
STATISTICAL DATA: COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORTATION
01-H521-47 TESTIMONY NO: 4 June 23, 2000 p. 144-192
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
GOODWIN,
JAMES (Chairman and CEO, United Airlines)
WOLF, STEPHEN M. (Chairman, U.S. Airways)
JOHNSON, ROBERT (Chairman and CEO, DC Air)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Anticipated benefits of
proposed United Airlines/U.S. Airways merger
for consumers and for new carrier DC Air; issues related to proposed
merger and airline industry competition.
CONTENT
NOTATION:
Airline industry competition issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
DC AIR; CONSUMERS
01-H521-47 TESTIMONY NO: 5 June 23, 2000 p.
193-236
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
WALKER, THOMAS R. (Commissioner, Chicago Department of
Aviation)
QUINN, KENNETH (attorney)
BAKER, BOB (Vice Chairman, American Airlines)
RILL, JAMES F. (attorney)
STATEMENTS AND
DISCUSSION:
Assessment of airline competition in the
Chicago airport system (related charts, p. 201-206); defense of
post-deregulation activities of major airlines, citing increase in airline
industry competition; refutation of Suburban O'Hare Commission findings
regarding alleged anticompetitive practices by major airlines in Chicago.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Airline industry
competition issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
AMERICAN AIRLINES
LOAD-DATE: May
23, 2001 
