Comments on: Do-nothing Congress votes to do nothing about the FAA http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/do-nothing-congress-votes-to-do-nothing-about-the-faa/ The last honest travel site Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe Farrell http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/do-nothing-congress-votes-to-do-nothing-about-the-faa/comment-page-1/#comment-6973 Joe Farrell Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:22:48 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=5490#comment-6973 The 'airlines plan' is designed to put the burden of modernizing the ATC system, of which they use 90% plus, on general aviation, you know, the guys who their own person airplanes for fun. They user fees, segment fees, more taxes and anything they can to not pay for what they use. I thought we all paid income taxes for things like ATC and road repair and building, marine terminals, etc. Yet, fees and specialized taxes go up and up and up and up. The ATC system is DESIGNED for the airlines. Every time I want to fly from NY to points south I need to over fly NYC only on ONE route at a choice of TWO altitudes, neither of which promotes efficiency. That route is two legs of a triangle instead of the hypotenuse, and adds a minimum of 20 minutes, or $60 each way, each time I go. So I ALREADY pay $720 penalty because the ATC is designed for the airlines. I get NO priority - ever. No they, and you, want me to pay even more, for a second class service. No way. You want me to pay top dollar, then I want to be treated EXACTLY like the airline flight. I want my routing and my altitude and not to be re-routed completely out of my way and in most cases PAST my destination for the convenience of an airliner lined up into JFK. If you are going to raise my cost of operating in the ATC system to that of the airlines, then fair is fair, right? Should I not get the same service and consideration? The ‘airlines plan’ is designed to put the burden of modernizing the ATC system, of which they use 90% plus, on general aviation, you know, the guys who their own person airplanes for fun. They user fees, segment fees, more taxes and anything they can to not pay for what they use.

I thought we all paid income taxes for things like ATC and road repair and building, marine terminals, etc. Yet, fees and specialized taxes go up and up and up and up.

The ATC system is DESIGNED for the airlines. Every time I want to fly from NY to points south I need to over fly NYC only on ONE route at a choice of TWO altitudes, neither of which promotes efficiency. That route is two legs of a triangle instead of the hypotenuse, and adds a minimum of 20 minutes, or $60 each way, each time I go. So I ALREADY pay $720 penalty because the ATC is designed for the airlines. I get NO priority – ever.

No they, and you, want me to pay even more, for a second class service. No way.

You want me to pay top dollar, then I want to be treated EXACTLY like the airline flight. I want my routing and my altitude and not to be re-routed completely out of my way and in most cases PAST my destination for the convenience of an airliner lined up into JFK. If you are going to raise my cost of operating in the ATC system to that of the airlines, then fair is fair, right? Should I not get the same service and consideration?

]]> By: Bruce Cooper http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/do-nothing-congress-votes-to-do-nothing-about-the-faa/comment-page-1/#comment-6943 Bruce Cooper Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:02:30 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=5490#comment-6943 they are doing their job, they are keeping the FAA going, since Mr Bush would just veto all the bills they wanted. see this http://www.rotor.com/Default.aspx?tabid=510&newsid905=59778 they are doing their job, they are keeping the FAA going, since Mr Bush would just veto all the bills they wanted.
see this http://www.rotor.com/Default.aspx?tabid=510&newsid905=59778

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