This is about taxes funding the FAA, and the implied conclusion of the video isn’t that these taxes should be removed, but that they should be weighted more heavily towards private flights for the sake of fairness.
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twisted@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
But even if this tax was reduced or went away, what’s stopping the airlines from hiking up the price by that amount? Airlines are looking for any excuse to squeeze out more money from you. In that case you’d just be funding the airline execs’ private flights.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
CannedYeet@lemmy.world 6 days ago
How would that even work? Commercial airlines and private jet operators are different entities.