Originally published at: Duffy Floats Passenger Fee For FAA Upgrades
Transportation secretary says dedicated funding could help maintain ATC modernization.
This has to be the most inefficient project in the history of federal projects and that’s saying a lot. It’s basically a career long project for some software developers amongst other things. Extend, add funding, extend……..
So it is time to ask the economists if airline faire pricing is elastic or inelastic! Meaning, will more people buy airline tickets if the price goes up or not. I believe less people will buy airlines tickets if the price of a ticket goes up. Meaning Secretary Duffy is shooting himself in the foot with such a proposal. Or, specifically, airlines ticket pricing appears inelastic; or increasing pricing will put a downward direction on the number of people who fly! The airlines will probably berate Secretary Duffy for such a proposal!
So, we already pay for an inefficient, ridiculous FAA and put up with their ineptitude. Now, we will pay an extra fee to fund the ineptitude further? Why don’t we just hire someone to run the FAA that understands the issues and fixes them? Truly, aviation is getting dangerous esp for the general aviation group
Airline passengers already pay a 7.5% tax on tickets and a $4.10 fee per flight segment into the Airports and Aviation Trust Fund that is used to support the air traffic control system. For cargo shippers there is also a waybill tax that goes into the same fund.