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GA IN AIRLINES' SIGHTS
GA IN AIRLINES' SIGHTS (http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#195737) General aviation groups are expecting an expensive and vicious campaign of misinformation from the country's major airlines as the bills addressing FAA reauthorization move closer to resolution. "Airlines are attacking general aviation," National Business Aviation Association President Ed Bolen told a packed house at a forum on the impact of user fees proposed in the Senate bill currently under consideration. "We are the enemy as far as they're concerned." Bolen was joined by EAA President Tom Poberezny, General Aviation Manufacturers Association President Pete Bunce and AOPA President Phil Boyer. Those attending were urged to contact their Congressmen and senators to try and ensure the final version of the bill, which varies widely between the Senate and the House, emerges with no apparatus to collect user fees. In the Senate bill, a $25 "modernization surcharge' is included for IFR flights by turbine aircraft, along with major cuts in taxes for airlines. The House bill increases taxes for all aviation sectors but doesn't allow for a billable fee, a crucial difference in the minds of the GA leaders. http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#195737 |
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