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US wants airlines to keep paying security costs
Again the current administration preaches security and yet at the same time
doesn't want to pay for it. I agree that most US airlines have been poorly run (the main clause of their currant state, not 9/11), but shouldn't security be the responsibility of the airports or the government? -- US wants airlines to keep paying security costs Reuters, 11.05.03, 6:15 PM ET By John Crawley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration indicated on Wednesday it will not let airlines off the hook for security costs, even though the struggling industry has lobbied hard for the government to do so. The Transportation Security Administration, which oversees aviation security, sought industry input on proposals to change the formula for determining what each airline contributes monthly. The money helps cover the multibillion-dollar cost for passenger and baggage screening and other government-run initiatives enacted after the Sept. 11, 2001, hijack attacks on New York and Washington. In a regulatory filing, TSA Administrator James Loy said the agency is considering a new formula -- to begin next October -- that would tie security payments to an individual carrier's market share. Currently, each airline contributes an amount equal to what it was paying for airport screening in 2000, when the industry ran security operations. But carriers, especially big ones struggling with huge losses, high business costs and shrinking passenger volume, have pressed the Bush administration to assume the entire cost of protecting planes, passengers and airports. "The airlines are the most heavily taxed industry in America and it's our position that the government should pay these fees because security is a national security issue," said Doug Wills, a spokesman for the industry's top lobbying group, the Air Transport Association. At the very least, larger airlines, which have contracted operations in the past two years, complain that newer carriersand low-cost operations that have grown over the same period should be paying more than they did nearly four years ago. Airlines paid the security administration $161 million in fiscal year 2002 and $226 million in fiscal 2003, which ended Sept. 30, according to agency figures. The government collected an additional $2.45 billion over the last two years from a passenger security fee of up to $10 per round trip. The industry said the airline and passenger fees as well as others that can be attributed to new security requirements have cost airlines more than $4 billion. The TSA took over aviation security from the airlines in February 2002. Among other changes, it has overhauled passenger screening at more than 400 airports, installed new baggage scanning equipment, required airlines use stronger cockpit doors and authorized a program to arm pilots. Copyright 2003, Reuters News Service -- http://anatidae.homestead.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:James_Anatidae http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/s...am_167065.html |
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US wants airlines to keep paying security costs
"James Anatidae" wrote in message ... Again the current administration preaches security and yet at the same time doesn't want to pay for it. I agree that most US airlines have been poorly run (the main clause of their currant state, not 9/11), but shouldn't security be the responsibility of the airports or the government? Where do you think the government get its money? -- US wants airlines to keep paying security costs Reuters, 11.05.03, 6:15 PM ET By John Crawley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration indicated on Wednesday it will not let airlines off the hook for security costs, even though the struggling industry has lobbied hard for the government to do so. The Transportation Security Administration, which oversees aviation security, sought industry input on proposals to change the formula for determining what each airline contributes monthly. The money helps cover the multibillion-dollar cost for passenger and baggage screening and other government-run initiatives enacted after the Sept. 11, 2001, hijack attacks on New York and Washington. In a regulatory filing, TSA Administrator James Loy said the agency is considering a new formula -- to begin next October -- that would tie security payments to an individual carrier's market share. Currently, each airline contributes an amount equal to what it was paying for airport screening in 2000, when the industry ran security operations. But carriers, especially big ones struggling with huge losses, high business costs and shrinking passenger volume, have pressed the Bush administration to assume the entire cost of protecting planes, passengers and airports. "The airlines are the most heavily taxed industry in America and it's our position that the government should pay these fees because security is a national security issue," said Doug Wills, a spokesman for the industry's top lobbying group, the Air Transport Association. At the very least, larger airlines, which have contracted operations in the past two years, complain that newer carriersand low-cost operations that have grown over the same period should be paying more than they did nearly four years ago. Airlines paid the security administration $161 million in fiscal year 2002 and $226 million in fiscal 2003, which ended Sept. 30, according to agency figures. The government collected an additional $2.45 billion over the last two years from a passenger security fee of up to $10 per round trip. The industry said the airline and passenger fees as well as others that can be attributed to new security requirements have cost airlines more than $4 billion. The TSA took over aviation security from the airlines in February 2002. Among other changes, it has overhauled passenger screening at more than 400 airports, installed new baggage scanning equipment, required airlines use stronger cockpit doors and authorized a program to arm pilots. Copyright 2003, Reuters News Service -- http://anatidae.homestead.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:James_Anatidae http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/s...am_167065.html |
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US wants airlines to keep paying security costs
"James Anatidae" wrote in message ... Again the current administration preaches security and yet at the same time doesn't want to pay for it. I agree that most US airlines have been poorly run (the main clause of their currant state, not 9/11), but shouldn't security be the responsibility of the airports or the government? You miss the point. Aren't the airlines expected to pass this cost on to the customers? It is a sort of user fee. Get used to more and more user fees in a world of reduced or frozen "taxes". Billy-Bob wouldn't want his income taxes paying for airport security for the high-rollers such as you and I. |
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US wants airlines to keep paying security costs
R J Carpenter wrote: Billy-Bob wouldn't want his income taxes paying for airport security for the high-rollers such as you and I. I don't think Billy Bob is hurting for money now that he doesn't have to spend any of it on that Angela person. |
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