Chris wrote:

This is nothing more than a very large tax increase.


or is it just the end of a subsidy by the taxpayer



Well if it is, it is one of the few taxpayer subsidies to ever end.

Besides, one way or the other you WILL pay for it, sort of like
increasing taxes on corporations... I wonder what the airlines can
charge to ship a package from point A to B once the competition
of GA is history.