I heard read something on the web last week (I think it was from FOX News, but I can’t find it so I won’t swear to it) that said the partial shutdown of the FAA would result in lower ticket prices as there would be no authority to collect the taxes.
All pigs harnessed and ready to fly.
I am so, so shocked. Surely the big corporations would take advantage of this opportunity to lower prices, even if it’s just for a while, so that more people can buy tickets.
Where’s my smelling salts?
Remember a few years ago when people wanted to cut gasoline taxes? Would have been the same thing, no doubt.
Colleges have raised their tuition faster than other consumer prices, in sync with the availability of student loans and usually hiring more administrators. Why should the airlines behave with any more concern for the customer?
Interesting thing on the radio yesterday: Some congressmen want to end subsidies to rural airports. These subsidies cost the federal government $200 million per year. The loss of revenue due to the current partial shutdown of the FAA is $30 million per day. The shutdown has, in a week and a half, cost more than the Essential Air Service program costs in an entire year.
Someone said that ending the rural air service program because there are fewer people in rural areas is like not paving roads in rural areas for the same reason.
I’m sorry but I’m going to call BS on this one. Colleges are raising tuition mainly because there’s an arms race for attracting students. if College X builds a new dorm, College Y has to build one to keep up. When you say the same about “new engineering department,” “new student center,” new everything, it adds up.
Around here the first people to go when economic times are bad is administration. I know of one university here that cut half of our counterpart department last year. There were six people there doing my job (at a school many times our size); now there’s just one.