Airports Council assembly refuses to bail out airlines

Airports Council assembly refuses to bail out airlines    The Airports Council International World Assembly, meeting in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, has refused to subsidize failing airlines.
   A resolution passed by members of the council urged the International Air Transport Association to end a “disinformation campaign about airport charges and come to the table in a new partnership to campaign for the elimination of public policy barriers to healthy industry growth.”
   “Airports should not subordinate the interests of their communities to strategies of failing airlines that would undermine such interests,” the council said in a statement.
   “All stakeholders in the air transport industry have been adversely affected by the events of the last several years. It is simplistic for IATA to single out airport user charges as a scapegoat for failed airline business models,” said Robert J. Aaronson, director of Airports Council International.