Originally Posted by FWAAA
Not yet. The September 11 Security Fee is still $2.50/segment, maximum $10 per round trip.
Most stupid tax enactment ever. Airline industry is obviously swirling in the toilet in November, 2001, and yet Congress passes a new tax on air travel. Since then, billions of dollars of airline losses (and billions of dollars of September 11 Security Fees collected).
I agree.
Not only that, but taxes are just insane on plane tickets. Sometimes the percentage is upwards of 50% on a plane ticket.
I bought a plane ticket for my mother-in-law earlier this spring and the fare was around $132. $88 of that was the the airfare, $44 was in taxes. If the taxes hadn't been so much AA could have had a nicer chunk of that money.
The airlines are the only business that the government wants to tax back into profitability. And we can see how well that worked.