AviationBanter - View Single Post - Airline passengers subsidizing private aviation

**Bert Hyman** · April 17th 07, 06:29 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.travel.air

(Barney Rubble) wrote in
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Just get to the point rather than repeatedly asking arsine
rhetorical questions.

What makes you think my question was rhetorical?

If the OP had simply answered the question directly, the thread would
have stopped at one.

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Apologies if someone else has already posted this:

Do the fees paid by the commercial airlines completely cover
the costs of building and operating airports and the air
traffic control system?

If not, then passengers are also subsidizing commercial
aviation.

For the most part, that is called fares.

How do fares cover the cost of building and operating the
airports and air traffic control system other than through fees
that are included in those fares?

Significants parts of the fares go to expenses like landing fees
and leases.

And do those "significant parts" cover the cost of building and
operating the airports and air traffic control system?

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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |