U.S. Travel Reacts to DOJ, DOT Inquiry on Air Travel Competition

U.S. Travel Association issued the following statement on the Departments of Justice and Transportation inquiry on the state of competition in air travel:

"Today's announcement by the Departments of Transportation and Justice that they will launch a 'broad inquiries' into airline business practices is another in a long line of disappointing political stunts. Airfares are at new lows and air travel demand is at historic highs. Yet air travel could be improved-by investing in technology, funding airport improvements and addressing the shortage of 3,000 air traffic controllers. Rather than solve these serious, complex and long-standing problems, the Biden administration is choosing to politicize the air travel process and, in so choosing, fail the American traveler."

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