bolen, i fully understand his point.ave no interest in seeing a system that's going to injury general aviation, business aviation or small airports or access to armtirports for that matter. >> thank you. >> senator markey? >> thank you, mr. chairman, very much. last month it's good to see the great byron dorgan back in congress. last month, along with ranking member nelson, senators cant cantwell, booker we sent a letter to the department of transportation, asking about airlines ability to engage in personalized pricing. personal liezized pricing would allow an airline to charge different prices to consumers trying to buy the same seat on the same flight at the same time. it's based on personal information the airline collected on the passenger. i am deeply concerned if airlines are allowed to engaged in personal liezized prices, they could discrimination charging customers different prices based on zip codes income levels, marital status or other characteristics. what if, for example airlines using consumer zip code inf

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bolen and i fully understand his point. i don't have any interest in seeing a system that is going to injure general aviation business aviation or small airports. >> thank you. >> senator markey followed by senator mccaskill. >> thank you chairman very much. it's good to see byron dorgan bachan congress. i spoke along with ranking member nelson senator cantwell booker blumenthal and frank and i sent a letter to the department of transportation asking about airline's ability to engage in personalized pricing. personal license pricing is a practice that would allow an airline to charge different prices to consumers that are trying to buy the same seat on the same flight at the same time time. the difference in airfare would be based upon personal situations that the airline has collected about the passenger. i and the other members are deeply concerned that if airlines are about to engage in personalized pricing they could discriminate amongst consumers charging customers different prices based on zip codes, income levels mar

bolen and i fully understand his point. i don't have any interest in seeing a system that is going to injure general aviation business aviation or small airports. >> thank you. >> senator markey followed by senator mccaskill. >> thank you chairman very much. it's good to see byron dorgan bachan congress. i spoke along with ranking member nelson senator cantwell booker blumenthal and frank and i sent a letter to the department of transportation asking about airline's ability to engage in personalized pricing. personal license pricing is a practice that would allow an airline to charge different prices to consumers that are trying to buy the same seat on the same flight at the same time time. the difference in airfare would be based upon personal situations that the airline has collected about the passenger. i and the other members are deeply concerned that if airlines are about to engage in personalized pricing they could discriminate amongst consumers charging customers different prices based on zip codes, income levels mar

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ed bolen. so a great panel. we look forward to hearing from all of you. we'll start on my left and your right with the administrator, mr. huerta. please proceed. >> thank you. members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to speak today about the re-authorization of the faa. the upcoming faa re-authorization provides us with the opportunity to propel our system to the next level of safety and to foster the kind of innovative climate that is long been the hallmark of our proud aviation heritage. this re-authorization is provided a forum for many an industry and government to openly discuss possible changes in the governing structure of the faa to help us create the aviation system that will sustain our nation's economic growth well into the future. we're open to having this discussion. but we must all agree on the most important problems re-authorization should fix. in our view those are budget instability and the lack of flexibility to execute on our priorities. these challenges exist for the entire agency, not just for the air traffic control syste

bolen said you bond out the markets today borrowing capital at almost no cost anybody would do this. you get tremendous savings by being able to make your investment now. you would probably build it in three years it would be outdone. >> i am listening to you and i'm hearing highways. we are all thinking about highways right now. they don't have a bill and a highway funding runs out in 10 minutes we still don't have a bill on highway funding. should we do this for our highway system? shall we go through a not-for-profit organization for our highway system and what about our waterways? or we go to a private a not-for-profit corporation for that? >> some of the port authorities are good analogous to that. indiana has done highways in ohio has done something similar. they're aspects and we have certainly done it on bridges in some cases. the mackinac bridge is run by a private authority. >> it seems to me that we could do better on the funding part and we would acknowledge that we need to do it for infrastructure we need to do something for infrastructure. we are shortchanging our count

ed bolen who is ceo of the business association -- aviation association. a great time am i look forward to hearing from all of you and i will start on my left and you're right with the administrator. mr. huerta please proceed. >> thank you chairman thune ranking member and members of the committee thank you for inviting me to speak today about the reauthorization of the faa. they have reauthorization provides us with the opportunity to propel our next -- to foster the kind of innovative climate that has long been the hallmark of our proud aviation heritage. this reauthorization is provided a form for many industry and government to openly discuss possible changes in the governing structure of the faa to help us create the aviation system that will sustain our nation's economic growth well into the future. we are open to having this discussion but we must all agree on the most important problems of reauthorization should fix. in our view is her budget and stability in the lack of flexibility to execute on our priorities. these challenges exist for the entir