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Article: Fight brewing over aviation administration's funding.
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- Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV)
- Article date:
- March 4, 2007
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Byline: Benjamin Spillman
Mar. 4--Battle lines are forming between airline passengers and private plane operators over who should pay for the nation's air traffic control system.
The battlefield is an upcoming bill in Congress to reauthorize funding for the Federal Aviation Administration, an agency that operates on about $14 billion annually.
The bill, which is yet to be introduced, would shift some of the burden for funding the FAA from commercial airline passengers to private plane and jet operators.
Airlines support the change because it would eliminate a 7.5 percent ticket tax passengers pay and, if air traffic control ...