Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private

Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  • Tickets for flights are taxed at 7.5% to pay for the FAA
  • Average flight with many passengers pays over $2,300 per flight
  • Private jets don't have tickets to be taxed, are only taxed on fuel
  • Private jets pay an average of about $60 in FAA fees
  • Private jets take up about 7% of the FAA's resources, but only make up a fraction of a percent of the revenue
  • Thus when you pay the FAA fees on your economy class ticket, you're subsidizing operating the FAA for private jet flights, that don't pay enough to cover their costs.

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  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s. So. Fucked.

    Is shit like this doesnt radicalize you then you are lost as a human. Unsavablle.

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    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My man... This bow everything into the US works.

      The peasants pay and the rich free ride. He wouldn't be the big man if he had to pay... Would he now?

      If only the normie cared to accept these facts as their reality.

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    • ComradeMiao@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Of all the things you think the line is FAA tax, lol

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So not really the flights themselves, just the regulation overseeing the flights.

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    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Parasite wrote the rules so they can leech.

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• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The FAA gathers taxes per person, not per plane. So a commercial flight has every single passenger paying, while a private jet only pays for a few people. But the air traffic controllers aren’t handling individual people; They’re handling planes. So private jets fund the ATC a lot less than commercial flights, even though they have just as much need.

  This video says Canada taxes planes based on weight rating and distance traveled. So larger planes that can carry heavier loads (more people) get taxed more, while smaller planes (private jets) get taxed less. But they’re proportionally paying the same in taxes, instead of the rich people paying less.

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• tychosmoose@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There are long standing problems with this. Not sure of the exact point of the video, but here is an older article with some info:
  https://www.newsweek.com/why-are-private-jets-being-subsidized-you-and-me-641890

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Corporate jets use almost $1 billion of air traffic control resources, they only contribute around $200 million in fuel taxes, letting commercial passengers pick up their tab.

    Generally, corporate jets are exempt from the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) air transportation tax, a fee on the number of passengers and amount of cargo transported, which funds 95 percent of ATC operations.

    The maintenance and improvement of the ATC system’s equipment and infrastructure is paid through the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (AATF), which is made up of excise taxes collected on aviation fuel, passenger transport and use of international air facilities.

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    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This summary should be posted into OP so it gets more eyes balls.

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• macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It is in the wrong format anyway. Stop vertical video syndrome.

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