Trouble ahead over small plane fees

On 2006-04-11, Bob Noel wrote:
Of course, this is speculation, but I get the feeling the FAA will just
look east to see how European countries treat GA.

Is GA a big source of funds for European countries?
How big a source relative to the airlines?

No it isn't - that's why it's utterly crap (and of course, they DON'T
count the fuel tax, which is already very high). So airlines have
bleated they are cross subsidising GA (and completely ignored the high
tax on avgas, and almost total lack of tax on Jet-A) and since the CAA
only listens to the airlines, GA gets shafted to make it 'fairer'.

Meanwhile, when airlines need to use GA (for things like training) they
send their students abroad to dodge the fees they lobbied for.

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