GA's "fair share"

Tax Srv said:
No attempt necessary; public record. The airport grant money goes
big time to air carrier airports; smaller amount to GA airports
(and the small fraction who receive grants). And they favor big
city "reliever airports" for grant money. This is to take the
burden off the big airports during rush hour, delaying the air
carriers. An important part of FAA's mission, the latter. And the
grant money for small fields also favors safety improvements,
another FAA mission. And BTW, nothing in FAA's mission is to
foster the GA aircraft industry, nor Boeing. That stuff was
removed from their mission statement years ago.

Fred F.

Right. And using that data, the Reason Foundation shows GA as very
heavily subsidized using miles travelled as the metric.

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Tax Srv said:
No attempt necessary; public record. The airport grant money goes
big time to air carrier airports; smaller amount to GA airports
(and the small fraction who receive grants). And they favor big
city "reliever airports" for grant money. This is to take the
burden off the big airports during rush hour, delaying the air
carriers. An important part of FAA's mission, the latter. And the
grant money for small fields also favors safety improvements,
another FAA mission. And BTW, nothing in FAA's mission is to
foster the GA aircraft industry, nor Boeing. That stuff was
removed from their mission statement years ago.

Fred F.

Right. And using that data, the Reason Foundation shows GA as very
heavily subsidized using miles travelled as the metric.


Miles traveled is not a useful metric. The only metric that would at all be
useful is how much would they save if a given group weren't using the
system. Let's say I plan to go fly today out of my uncontrolled airport. The
FAA isn't going to save 1/1,000,000th of a dime should I or any other
recreational flyers choose to NOT fly to day. In fact it will cost them in
unearned fuel taxes.

They aren't widening the runway for me there not even doing it for the
bizjet crowd. They are doing it so the airline that flys into here 4 or 5
times a day can use either runway.