Originally Posted by rebadc
I also thought Congress waived the 9/11 security fee to the airlines that last time they went to the hill asking for a bailout.
If this is the case why has this not been passed to the airlines customers?
You are talking about a short-term waiver of that tax which, IIRC, ran from about May 2003 to about September 2003. Since then, the airlines have had to pay that tax.
And your question assumes that passengers actually pay that tax on top of what the airlines want to charge; there is almost no evidence that airlines are able to pass along the costs of those taxes to customers.
If airlines COULD tack those taxes on top of the ticket price and collect it, then airlines could easily do the same with high fuel prices. And there is lots of evidence that airlines are unable to do so.