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2019-05-11 Economy

Fix air travel in America: ~~Raise taxes~~ Adjust the passenger facility charge

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-11 07:59|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Better idea. Tear down the airports. Make everyone go through a warehouse security operation and wait on the tarmac. Parking lots, runways, porta johns. It could not be much worse than what air travel is today.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-05-11 08:21|| 2019-05-11 08:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Toll Booths at airport entrances really are the key.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-05-11 08:26|| 2019-05-11 08:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Or we could stop paying huge subsidies to tiny rural airports and small, secondary airports in larger cities that have no chance of being able to sustain themselves? We could save money instead of steal more money!

Posted by Vernal Hatrack2366 2019-05-11 08:56|| 2019-05-11 08:56|| Front Page Top

#4 ...We also have an out-of-control NIMBY culture here, which I'm pretty sure places like the ROK don't have to deal with.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-05-11 08:56|| 2019-05-11 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 And the ones that remain should be privatized, with the security theater removed.

Posted by Vernal Hatrack2366 2019-05-11 08:56|| 2019-05-11 08:56|| Front Page Top

#6 AFAICT the big push to upgrade or build new terminals is more about creating graft opportunities than improving air travel.

Posted by Glenmore 2019-05-11 09:16|| 2019-05-11 09:16|| Front Page Top

Posted by JohnQC 2019-05-11 09:35|| 2019-05-11 09:35|| Front Page Top

#8 a promise to fix our country’s outdated infrastructure...

Um, shouldn't that be crumbling infrastructure? Isn't that the usual bullshit?

Posted by Raj 2019-05-11 10:32|| 2019-05-11 10:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Thank Gawd for my Emotional-Support Tarantula or I'd never make it through the long TSA lines without anxiety.

Sure, come and frisk me!

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-05-11 12:26|| 2019-05-11 12:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Sure, come and frisk me!

My emotional support cooties are not going to like that.

Posted by gorb 2019-05-11 12:31|| 2019-05-11 12:31|| Front Page Top

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