In its effort to pass a $65 billion, four-year FAA reauthorization plan, the Senate Commerce Committee narrowly sustained the $25 user fee in passing the FAA’s reauthorization legislation –S.1300 The Aviation Investment and Modernization Act of 2007 – despite efforts by Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and John Sununu (R-NH) to eliminate the per-flight-segment user fee. The committee did, however, adopt a measure by Senator Mark Pryr (D-AR) for reforming the Essential Air Program to improve marketing efforts at EAS points. It also rejected efforts to raise the passenger facility charge cap to $7.50 which would kibosh plans by Atlanta to raise its PFC from the current $4.50. It requires airlines to allow passengers to deplane after a three-hour delay on the ground and increased the pilot retirement age to 65.