About Air Charters

Obama Hood - Spread the Wealth asked:


Created to last 10 years, the program that guarantees air service to small towns is now 31-years-old and showing no signs of dying.

The program cost $24 million in 1990 — but it now costs six times that, and most cities are no closer to breaking even than they were a decade ago.

On average, flights are 75 percent empty from cities you’ve probably probably never visited and may not have even heard of. Critics call it a government charter that you pay for, but never fly.

Passengers who use the program typically pay less than $200 a ticket, yet taxpayer subsidies for that same passenger routinely are hundreds — sometimes even thousands — of dollars.

Critics say the program is out of control. Subsidies were supposed to be no higher than $200 per ticket for cities less than 210 miles from a sizable airport, but in practice, the limit is not enforced.

Consider these ticket prices and taxpayer subsidies:

– Cape Girardeau, Mo., to St. Louis: ticket price $189, taxpayer subsidy $1,939.

– Glendive Mont., to Billings: ticket price $233, taxpayer subsidy $2,526.

– Alamogordo, N.M., to Albuquerque: ticket price $192, taxpayer subsidy $2,270

– Harve, Mont., to Billings: ticket price $233, taxpayer subsidy, $2887

– Ely, Nev., to Denver: ticket price $300, taxpayer subsidy $4,504.

The program serves roughly 3,000 people per day — mostly businessmen, who critics argue can and should pay more for their flight. Instead, Congress continues to increase the taxpayers’ portion of the ticket.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/13/tracking-taxes-essential-air-service/

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