Speaking to a Washington DC audience in September, American Airlines chairman and CEO Doug Parker noted a dichotomy with which US airlines are battling. "The industry is doing better than it ever has done and it feels like everything is going better until you come to Washington DC. Here in our nations capital it often feels like the opposite. We are over-taxed, over-regulated and under-served," Parker said. Parker, who was addressing The Future of Flight Aviation Policy Summit, said there was a lot of good news about the US airline industry, which is profitable and demonstrating all-time highs in trackers such as on-time performance and bag handling. Yet Congress, the government and a band of self-described pro-consumer advocates in Washington seem ready and armed to reverse that hard-won success.
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