Entries by Melody Merin

Major consumer & passenger rights groups launch ad opposing air traffic privatization – National Consumers League

October 6, 2017: Washington DC — Today, leading airline passenger, consumer and rural organizations, including National Consumers League, FlyersRights.org, Consumer Action, the Alliance for Aviation Across America and In The Public Interest launched an ad to set the record straight on the airlines’ push to privatize the air traffic control system. The ad specifically aims to correct a number of misleading claims put forth by the airlines and their paid front groups that privatization would somehow benefit passengers or communities.