The apparently settled two-week dispute more than funding for that Federal Aviation management has currently price the the federal government about $400 million in income from ticket taxes — additionally to temporarily placing about 4,000 FAA staff and 70,000 airport building employees away from jobs.
But in which there are losers, there are also winners. That $400 million is not heading to disappear. Nooo. it is heading to go for the airlines — at the very least all those that ongoing to gather the taxes bucks from travelers throughout the funding fight.
And that bucks couldn't appear at a much better time, mentioned Sharon Pinkerton, a lobbyist for that oxygen Transport Association — and past counsel to home Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-Fla.).
The airline marketplace is sick, it is anemic, Pinkerton mentioned at a Senate hearing final week. In the final ten years, we've experienced to drop 150,000 work [a good method to say fired a bunch of people] as a end result of our $55 billion of losses, she said. We must have the ability to include the price of flying folks.
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