Taxes and fees attached to airline ticket sales

[gyuri_ft]

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/04/16/t...n.ap/index.html

An other "gem":

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/04/16/t...s.ap/index.html

 

[PRR 60]

??

Are airline ticket taxes and fees a secret? Certainly not to anyone who flies anywhere and takes even a cursory glance at the fare calculation. Airline tickets are among the most heavily taxed consumer purchases.

 

[daveyb99]

This whole "subsidized" angle is nothing but an attempt by the major airlines to shift away some of their tax burden and send to the laps of the dreaded "general aviation", who btw, would be hit with a 70% increase in their fuel taxes.

The figures do not add up (check the second paragraph):

$7 Billion to "general aviation" over 10 years.

Deduct approx $2.6 Billion PAID by "General Aviation"

Leaves $4.3 Billion

Spread over approx 700,000,000 passengers per year

Equals approx $0.61 per pax per year.

Hmmmm, some subsidy.

 

[AmtrakWPK]

A good part of the idea behind funding the smaller airports is to keep all those corp. jets and small planes OUT of the airline hub airports, thus reducing what would otherwise be chronic unmanageable delays to airline passengers because their airports would be clogged with small planes and corp. jets as well as airliners. Right now many of the airline hubs generate major delays at the drop of a hat just with airliners. Add the general aviation planes to that and the result would be all airliners running on Union Pacific airways. It's amazing how you can slant a news piece by simply not telling the whole story. Saying that the small planes cost the air traffic control system $xxx is also bogus, as that system is in place and operating 24/7 regardless of whether a small plane flies or not. It's akin to providing a bright light in a room that provides light to everyone that is trying to read in that room. You can bring lots more people into that room to read using the same light without any additional cost being incurred.

Many of the airports that receive the funding host at least some commercial airline flights and lots of general aviation aircraft. The money to those airports, at least to a lot of them, is better described as upkeep, as several hundred were built during WW-II or Korea as training bases. Florida has literally dozens of them, where today's equivalent of many Billions of dollars were spent building them, and it would be poor stewardship to NOT keep them up as an integral part of the nation's air infrastructure. Those airports are all WAY bigger and better in terms of runways, taxiways, and aprons, than anything those cities could possibly have afforded on their own, and could well be considered in some respects as a gift from the veterans that fought in WW-II to keep us free. If we let those magnificent airports, built to train those folks, crumble and decay we dishonor their sacrifice and we dishonor the sacrifice the whole country underwent to build that infrastructure.

 

[gyuri_ft]

A good part of the idea behind funding the smaller airports is to keep all those corp. jets and small planes OUT of the airline hub airports, thus reducing what would otherwise be chronic unmanageable delays to airline passengers because their airports would be clogged with small planes and corp. jets as well as airliners. Right now many of the airline hubs generate major delays at the drop of a hat just with airliners. Add the general aviation planes to that and the result would be all airliners running on Union Pacific airways. It's amazing how you can slant a news piece by simply not telling the whole story. Saying that the small planes cost the air traffic control system $xxx is also bogus, as that system is in place and operating 24/7 regardless of whether a small plane flies or not. It's akin to providing a bright light in a room that provides light to everyone that is trying to read in that room. You can bring lots more people into that room to read using the same light without any additional cost being incurred.Many of the airports that receive the funding host at least some commercial airline flights and lots of general aviation aircraft. The money to those airports, at least to a lot of them, is better described as upkeep, as several hundred were built during WW-II or Korea as training bases. Florida has literally dozens of them, where today's equivalent of many Billions of dollars were spent building them, and it would be poor stewardship to NOT keep them up as an integral part of the nation's air infrastructure. Those airports are all WAY bigger and better in terms of runways, taxiways, and aprons, than anything those cities could possibly have afforded on their own, and could well be considered in some respects as a gift from the veterans that fought in WW-II to keep us free. If we let those magnificent airports, built to train those folks, crumble and decay we dishonor their sacrifice and we dishonor the sacrifice the whole country underwent to build that infrastructure.

Thkx for telling, I just posted what was found. It did not look good at first sight. Looks like an other superficial report than.