The Department of Transportation (DOT) will auction off a prized takeoff and landing slot at Newark International, as the first step in an experiment designed to ease nationwide travel delays caused by congestion in New York area airspace. Additional slot auctions would follow at Newark and New York's Kennedy International before the end of the year. But the Air Transport Association (ATA), which represents the top U.S. air carriers, said it would sue to stop it. And DOT made the…
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