The subsidies to GA are MASSIVE

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:07:28 GMT, "Tom Conner"
wrote:


"Skylune" wrote in message
alkaboutaviation.com...
Now that I have again provided the amount of annual funding
deriving from GA fuel taxes (including AV GAS and Jet A), compare
that to 2005 capital grants to airports by looking at the ACTUAL
2005 DATA below. (Note that these figures DO NOT include the
$150K annual operating subsidy that many GA airports receive.)

DAMN: the subsidies are enormous, as every informed person knows....


http://www.faa.gov/airports_airtraff...rants_2005.pdf


What are the definitions for the acronyms in the "Service Level" column?
The local GA airports that received grants are listed as "R" in this column.

The meanings of "service level" a

P - Primary airport: Large, medium, and small Hubs and non-hubs with
more than 10,000 annual emplanements. Received $1,109.8 million in
grants in 2004.

CS - Commercial Service: Between 2,500 and 10,000 annual emplanements.
Received $137.9 million in grants.

R - Reliever airports: 100 or more based GA aircraft and 25,000
annual itinerant operations. Received $209.4 million in grants.

GA - General Aviation airport: No scheduled commercial service and not
CS. Typically 1 per county in rural areas. Average 33 based aircraft.
Home for 40% of GA fleet. Received $540.2 million in grants.

RK Henry