Government Airline Aid Estimates

[usfliboi]

The fees you pay are not for aircraft door replacement etc. Those are fees collected for the cost the airlines incurred to HIRE EXTRA SECURITY TO HELP PROTECT YOU BOIS! You have a problem with it dont pay your taxes guys? Dont fly an airline! DRIVE! Its that simple. What type of companies do you guys work for? Youre saying your companies havent gotton any type AT ALL in the form of WELFARE? Please revolt and dont pay your taxes In the mean time thanks for the stamps checks and FREE STUFF that you guys only provided for all of us.

 

[gilbertguy]

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On 4/18/2003 2:54:01 PM usfliboi wrote:

The fees you pay are not for aircraft door replacement etc. Those are fees collected for the cost the airlines incurred to HIRE EXTRA SECURITY TO HELP PROTECT YOU BOIS! You have a problem with it dont pay your taxes guys? Dont fly an airline! DRIVE! Its that simple. What type of companies do you guys work for? Youre saying your companies havent gotton any type AT ALL in the form of WELFARE? Please revolt and dont pay your taxes In the mean time thanks for the stamps checks and FREE STUFF that you guys only provided for all of us.

So....what you are saying is don''t pay taxes so airlines can''t get bailouts....stop flying so airlines don''t take-in revenue...oh, I worked for an airline until furloughed....but now I work for the Feds....thanks for your tax money!

 

[gilbertguy]

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On 4/18/2003 1104 AM MrAeroMan wrote:

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On 4/18/2003 9:31:42 AM gilbertguy wrote:


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On 4/18/2003 9:13:30 AM Severed-N-Happy wrote:

Playing devils advocate here, but since the sec. fees were originally collected from the public''s pockets  in the price of their tickets, shouldn''t the "refunds" be going back to them, not the airlines? Remember those annoying refund voucher credits from the mid 90s that everyone who flew in the late 80s early 90s received??

Perhaps I am misunderstanding where the source and justification of this bailout is coming from.!?????!??!?!?!?!?!!?

S-N-H, you''ve hit the nail right on the head. Look at the cost of any tix and 25% of it is taxes.....sales, facility charges, fuel in some cases and security.....it is the pax'' money.

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The taxes that have increased since 9-11 have not been passed on fully to the pax.  The majority of those taxes have come at the expense of the airlines bottom line.  No airline has been able to raise fares to cover the costs of the additional federal security requirements therefore those costs have come off the existing fares. 
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Airlines can raise their fares anytime they wish.....but it is the airlines who refuse to go along with it who bump them back down....and this gets back to why Southwest and Jetblue aren''t screaming about these costs.....and this gets back to why pax'' should be paying for these costs as well as keeping these carriers in business......not the farmer in Iowa, the coal miner in W. Va or anyone else who normally does not fly....but pays taxes....

 

[usfliboi]

Gilburt! What about people who have no kids or a car and pay school tax road tax? Its all the same man !