The super-wealthy are skirting the fees you pay for commercial airline tickets, while still reaping the benefits, a new report finds.
. If you’ve ever bought a plane ticket in the U.S., you’ve helped fund this pot of cash, which stood at $14.80 billion at the end of 2021. Customers pay a fee equivalent to 7.5% of their fare with each ticket, as well as a small passenger facility charge to help with airport infrastructure. A, so, too, has that surcharge.One would think that private flights would be subject to similar fees to help fund the FAA.
which comes out to about 22 cents per gallon of fuel. Overall, according to the report, private flights end up funding just 2% of the FAA’s trust fund.ncredibly, those private flights are taking advantage of facilities that your ticket fees help pay for.
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