{"id":34534,"date":"2015-10-27T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T05:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/delta-leaves-airline-lobbying-group-was-split-on-issues\/"},"modified":"2015-10-27T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T05:02:09","slug":"delta-leaves-airline-lobbying-group-was-split-on-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/delta-leaves-airline-lobbying-group-was-split-on-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta leaves airline lobbying group; was split on issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK \u2014<\/strong> Delta Air Lines is leaving the main trade and lobbying group for U.S. carriers.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO of Airlines for America, Nicholas Calio, said in a statement Tuesday that Delta \u201chas not been aligned\u201d with other airlines on some key industry positions, including plans to privatize the nation\u2019s air traffic control system.<\/p>\n<p>Delta said the $5 million in annual membership dues could be put to better use. The airline had a $3.5 billion profit the first nine months of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The association said Delta will no longer be a member as of April 26. It still includes other major U.S. carriers including American Airlines, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and JetBlue Airways as well as cargo carriers FedEx, UPS and Atlas Air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Delta Air Lines is leaving the main trade and lobbying group for U.S. carriers. The CEO of Airlines for America, Nicholas Calio, said in a statement Tuesday that Delta \u201chas not been aligned\u201d with other airlines on some key industry positions, including plans to privatize the nation\u2019s air traffic control system. Delta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-34534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34534"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}