U.S. National Security & Transportation Industry

CARF, AND ITS STRATEGIC MOBILITY ROLE

The CARF is a creation of the national airlift policy, which forges a common bond between the U.S. government, as represented by the Department of Defense (DOD), and the civil aviation industry, as represented by individual participating air carriers (Cohoon, 1989). Through contractual arrangements between DOD and individual air transportation carriers, "a fleet of pre-identified civil passenger and cargo aircraft" is "committed to supporting military strategic airlift requirements in emergencies" (p. 10).

The CARF includes "almost all of the wide-bodied jets operated by domestic U.S. airlines and roughly 170 commercial cargo planes" (Cohoon, 1989, p. 10). During an emergency, the aircraft in the CARF remain under the operational control of the individual air carriers; however, the missions for

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CAB) for creating a cohesive and an effective national air transportation system, and urged the board to retain the system in its existing form (Meyer, and Oster, 1981). The appointment of John Robson as CAB chairman in 1975, however, proved to be a turning-point in the move toward regulatory reform in the airline industry. While professing neither support for nor opposition to deregulation, Robson was willing to experiment with the introduction of laissez-faire policies into the regulation of the industry. Under Robson's leadership, the CAB either permitted competition for the first time or increased competition on what had in the past been either monopoly or near-monopoly routes. These relatively small changes were viewed as revolutionary in the context of the existing regulatory system (Biederman, 1982). In July 1976, the CAB voted to permit regulated interstate air carriers to lower fares, so that they could better compete with unregulated (by the CAB) intrastate carriers in California and Texas. This action was followed in February 1977 by a General Accounting Office (GAO) report contending that regulation of the airline industry had cost American consumers approximately $2 billion per year from 1969 through 1974 (Bied
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