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0 Comments | USA TODAY, August, 2007 | by Ben Mutzabaugh

Help wanted: Major airlines are asking passengers for help convincing Congress that private aircraft owners should pay more to modernize an outdated air-traffic control system. U.S. carriers are drumming up customer support through e-mails, airline magazine commentaries and in-flight videos, blaming a surge in corporate jet and small plane traffic for delays that are at record levels. Delta Air Lines sent an e-mail to its frequent fliers this month, asking them to write their congressional representatives and request corporate jet owners ante up for a new air-traffic control system. The airline plans to start showing a short animated video on most flights Sept. 1.

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