Aviation Conspiracy: Airline's Fuel Prices Continue Climb!!!

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Aviation Conspiracy Newsletter
#486........................................................................June
22,  2008 Past newsletters can be accessed at:
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Quote of the Week:  "Using daily averages is an outdated way of measuring
noise; it doesn't account for what people actually experience. The noise
still rattles my windows and wakes me up." from a news story this week on a
Philadelphia Airport noise "workshop."

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Airline's Fuel Prices Soar!!!

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As Bill Sees It (Editorial): Airlines Fuel Prices Take Off!!! Many stories
this week talk about how the "poor" airlines are in trouble because of high
fuel prices and how many are cutting service in small regional airports.
This will be good news to their victims who must endure 24 hour-a-day
aircraft noise over their heads. That doesn't bother the airlines, most
airport managers or the federal government, so I don't think that airlines
folding or leaving regional airports will bother most communities impacted
by their pollution. On the contrary, I think there will be great cause for
celebration that their daily assault on their hears and sleep has been
lessened. I'm sure that every time one of their noise victims gasses up
their cars they have the happy thought that the airlines have to pay more
for their fuel also. I only hope the price of aviation fuel goes higher.

World Health Organization (WHO) Ignoring Scientific Evidence Of Health
Impacts Of Noise!!! Even though  recent studies have shown clear scientific
evidence, from many reputable sources, that noise, especially nighttime
aircraft noise, has serious health impacts, the World Health Organization
ignores them. Their sites still refer to 2002-2004 studies and they lament
that there isn't "more evidence" of health impacts from noise pollution.
This is clear proof that the European Union and its health organization has
been taken over by the aviation industry lobbyists. Aviation's victims once
looked to Europe as place where governments considered people's health
before the aviation industry's profits should look elsewhere. WHO picked a
good symbol for their organization's logo...a big snake.

Sen. Schumer STILL Fighting Efforts To "Cap" N.Y. Airport Flights!!!
Speaking of snakes, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is still fighting efforts to
put a limit on the number of flights per hour at N.Y. City airports in order
to reduce congestion. In other words "Chuck" wants MORE flights, with their
increased levels of noise and air pollution, inflicted on airport
communities!!! When this creep comes up for reelection just watch all the
"environmental" groups fall over each other to support him. Aviation's
victims, especially communities fighting the increased noise from the FAA's
Airspace Redesign scheme (which Schumer supports) should remember who Chuck
works for and start looking for a candidate to replace him. No doubt the
airline industry lobbyists contribute more to Schumer's "war chest" than
their victims do.

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Philadelphia Noise Workshop Draws Complaints!!! He loves planes, he said --
but not the ones flying over his house in Brandywine Hundred. "We're
bombarded every minute," he said. "It's killing us." Ferguson was among
those who attended the third of five Philadelphia International Airport
noise community workshops. Thursday's workshop in Claymont was the only one
scheduled in Delaware. The airport is updating its five-year noise
compatibility study, with FAA approval expected next year. The first study
was completed in 2003. Consultant DMJM Aviation is attempting to identify
areas currently affected by airplane noise, and those expected to be
affected in 2013, with an eye to crafting necessary noise abatement
measures. Airplane traffic is expected to soar 19 percent in the next five
years, to 594,000 landings and take-offs each year. But that projection is
from 2004 and does not take into account increased capacity from an ongoing
runway extension at the Philadelphia airport, and a redesign of the airspace
that is supposed to allow more planes to take off faster. The noise report
is voluntary, and while federal funding is available for implementing the
mitigation strategies, doing so also is voluntary, said Allan A'Hara, DMJM
Aviation vice president. One of the outcomes of the 2003 study was to begin
soundproofing 600-plus homes in Delaware County, Pa. But for northern
Delaware, which lies outside the Federal Aviation Administration's noise
threshold standards, federally funded soundproofing is probably not an
option, A'Hara said.
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080620/NEWS/806200340

Congressmen Get On Philadelphia's Mayor's Case!!! PHILADELPHIA. U.S. Reps.
Joe Sestak and Rob Andrews (right) sent a letter to Mayor Michael Nutter
last week demanding that the city's international airport come into
compliance with federal air traffic regulations. The letter is the latest
move by the two congressmen in a three-year-plus fight with the Federal
Aviation Administration over airplane noise above Delaware County and
Gloucester County, N.J. towns. Sestak, D-Media (pictured on left), said
yesterday that he sent the letter to Nutter after finding out the
Philadelphia International Airport has yet to readjust its "noise
compatibility program" after several changes to flight patterns out of the
airport in the last two years. "The NCP is mandatory to be followed," said
Sestak, who has made it one of his priorities in his first term to prevent
more flights over Delaware County that would occur in a proposed major
realignment of flights out of major northeastern United States airports.
Sestak added that he talked with Nutter yesterday morning briefly about the
letter. A spokesman for Nutter said the city is still researching the
federal obligations that the city airport has to meet. "The mayor needs a
bit more time to go over the contents of the letter with the deputy mayor
for transportation and [the city] Aviation [Division] before he will make
any decisions," spokesman Doug Oliver said.
http://philly.metro.us/metro/local/article/Reps_Get_on_board_city/12692.html

U.S. Airlines May Lose Billions In 2008!!! U.S. airlines may lose as much as
$13 billion in 2008 as surging fuel prices outpace fare increases, the chief
of the Air Transport Assn. told a Senate committee Tuesday. This year's
financial results will be "on par" with the industry's worst ever as
carriers' combined fuel costs reach $61 billion, the association's chief
executive, James May, said. The record loss is $11 billion in 2002, the
group said. "I don't think anybody predicted this extraordinary jump in
prices," said May, whose group represents the biggest U.S. carriers. The
updated forecast came as airlines announced more cuts Tuesday. Northwest
Airlines said it would cut its capacity later this year by 3% to 4% and trim
its workforce because of high fuel prices. Northwest says it has not yet
finalized the number of positions it wants to eliminate. "In response to
these extraordinary fuel costs, we are taking prudent actions to reduce our
capacity and right-size," CEO Doug Steenland said. "This will allow us to
better match our capacity to customer demand as airfares, by necessity, must
increase." Air Canada said separately it would cut up to 2,000 jobs and
reduce capacity 7%. United Airlines earlier projected its 2008 fuel bill
would hit $9.5 billion, more than $3.5 billion higher than 2007.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-airlines18-2008jun18,0,4661087.story

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