The TSA is showing again how it gets creative in its interpretations in order to get its way and take advantage of consumers/passengers .... while at the same time trying to ingratiate themselves with elements of the American equivalent of the "deep state".
Here the TSA fund-raising exercise is also about raising money to finance the general budget deficit and service the national debt, and this change gets away from being a user fee designed to cover just the expenses necessary and attributable to the user's actual use of a facility.
Shame on the TSA for behaving as if words mean whatever the TSA wants them to mean in order to boost its power over the traveling public.
Originally Posted by USA Today
Round trip now means any trip leaving and returning to the same spot. This allows a traveler to fly from Seattle to Los Angeles, then head back and forth to Chicago over a period of days, before returning home to Seattle for $10 in security fees, Leocha said.
Under the TSA proposal, the same itinerary, with at least four hours between each flight, would cost $22.40 in fees. The TSA cited an example that could yield $28 in fees, if a traveler flew from Newark to Chicago to Denver to Las Vegas to Chicago to Newark, with four-hour connections between each city.
The TSA estimated the proposed fees would generate $16.9 billion more in the next decade than the current fee structure. The agency said in a statement Wednesday that revenue not designated for deficit reduction will provide for "civil-aviation security services."
Congress agreed in December to raise TSA fees as part of a budget deal. The agreement was to raise fees starting in July from $2.50 for a non-stop flight, or $5 for a trip needing a connecting flight, to a flat $5.60 each way.
But the agency proposes to change the definition of a round trip, according to details set to be published Friday in the Federal Register. Under the proposal, the TSA plans to charge a separate $5.60 fee for each leg of a flight in which a connection between domestic flights is more than four hours, or between domestic flights in Alaska or Hawaii and international destinations with layovers of more than 12 hours.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...ocha/10772799/
From $10 in TSA fees to $22.40 in TSA fees for the very same itinerary.
What a scam.
Originally Posted by
sbm12
It has been talked about in the news for months. If you paid a bit of attention the info was there.
Where in the news has the TSA redefinition of "roundtrip" been mentioned for months?