GA User fees
"Jose" wrote:
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This is what a reliever airport is. It's a way to keep
spam cans out of the way of big aluminum tubes. The
primary beneficary is the airlines, who can now
schedule more flights and have fewer delays...
Exactly, and the issue is not just small GA planes. Our City goes
further by charging the $1 million annual operating deficit of the
reliever directly to the air carriers in the user fees they pay to the
port authority. If the reliever field closed, corporate aviation and
the fleet of medevac helicopters would have to move to the big airport,
causing serious delays. Peak times for bizjets are the same as for air
carrier.
Fred F.
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