Corporate Jets Face $100-a-Flight Fee in Obama Deficit Plan [View All]

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From Bloomberg Businessweek:

Sept. 19 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s administration proposed a $100 per-flight fee on corporate jets and other turbine-powered planes that use the U.S. air-traffic system.

The fee would raise an estimated $11 billion over 10 years, according to the president’s recommendations to the 12-member congressional committee charged with finding ways to trim the deficit. The fee is aimed at private aircraft, which currently don’t pay their fair share of costs of operating the aviation system, the administration said today.

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The Obama plan is aimed at pilots who fly under the supervision of air-traffic controllers.

“Recreational piston aircraft” wouldn’t have to pay the fee, according to the proposal. It would also exempt aircraft operated by the military or other government agencies, air ambulances and any flight that doesn’t require air-traffic guidance.

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