If American de-emphasized its presence there it would leave room for smaller players, such as Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways and Spirit, to take up new routes.

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So far as I can tell, Alaska Airlines was not objecting to deregulation itself, so implicitly it wanted to treat the EPP as severable from deregulation, but it wantred to treat the legislative veto as inseparable from the rest of the EPP.

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As a pilot for Alaska Airlines I can tell you that we are working to get approval to use the iPAD for every phase of flight.

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