...ie, to determine fair and reasonable rates of mail compensation for air carriers in consideration of "the need of each such air carrier for compensation...States, the postal service, and the national defense." We wish also to announce our policy with respect to the grounding costs of carriers, incident to the...

...of service. § 406 (b). And the Board in determining the rate is authorized and directed to consider "the need of each such air carrier for compensation...States, the Postal Service, and the national defense." §406(b). Considerable reliance is placed on this last provision for the view that the Board has authority...

...services necessary to the maintenance of a national transportation system adequate to meet the needs of the commerce of the United States, the postal service, and the national defense. Each would authorize the Secretary of Transportation to guarantee, in whole or in part, payment of...

...and development of an air transportation system properly adapted to the present and future needs of the commerce of the United States, the Postal Service and the national defense, with the provision of competition to the extent necessary to assure such an air transportation system,...

...convenience and necessity are entitled to such Federal payments as they may need "under honest, economic and efficient management, to maintain and continue...States, the postal service and the national defense." Mindful of that injunction by the statute, the Board has allocated subsidy through the years at levels...

...fixes rates of subsidy compensation to promote the development of air transportation to the extent and quality required for the commerce of the United...States, the Postal Service and the national defense. Financial form Direct eush payments. Subsidy is provided to cover the carrier's operating loss incurred...

...air service, etc. . . . ... it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress, In the interests of the commerce of the United States, the postal service, and the national defense to promote the development of local, feeder, and short-haul air transportation. In furtherance of this...

...transportation system which will be adequate to the present and future needs of the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, the postal service, and the national defense; to preserve the inherent advantages of air transportation, and to regard as in the public interest...

...management, to maintain and continue the development of air transportation to the extent and of th< character and quality required for the commerce of the United States, the post.-i ¡ service and the national defense." Mindful of that injunction by the statute, th. Board...

...service mail rate basis, shall maintain and continue, under honest, economical, and efficient management, the development of air transportation to the extent...States, the Postal Service, and the national defense." SEC. 3 (a) A commuter air carrier is not a certificated air carrier within the provisions of 39 USC...