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.
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