The U.S. airline industry has won a battle to remove proposed limits on fees for everything from checked baggage to assigned seats from a funding bill for the Federal Aviation Administration.

The caps were excluded from compromise language negotiated between key House and Senate committees after fierce pushback. The top executive at American Airlines threatened to end services such as ticket changes if Congress moved ahead with the proposal. And Airlines for America, one of the industry’s top lobbying groups, regularly referred to the provision as an “existential threat” that would return the sector to the days of strict government control.