LOS ANGELES AIRPORT : Federal Agency to Review Dispute Over Landing Fees
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The U.S. Department of Transportation will review a dispute between the city and the airline industry over the tripling of landing fees at Los Angeles International Airport.
A department spokesman said the dispute will be among the first to be reviewed by the federal agency under rules adopted earlier this year.
The Air Transport Assn. and more than a dozen airlines asked the federal agency to review the 1993 fee increases.
When the city threatened to close the airport to airlines that refused to pay the fee, Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena negotiated an agreement under which the airlines agreed to pay the charges while challenging their legality.
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