Added safety measures after last month’s failed attempt to blow up a jetliner may make it harder for U.S. airlines to thwart a security-fee increase the Obama administration has been seeking.
“There’s no question” the administration and Congress will enact higher fees in response to the Christmas Day attempt, Michael Boyd, president of the Boyd Group International Inc., an aviation consulting firm, said in an interview.
U.S. airlines, with collective losses of about $60 billion since 2001, say they lack pricing power to pass fees on to fliers. The government is buying more full-body scanners after it said a 23-year-old Nigerian man attempted to ignite explosives in his undergarments on a Detroit-bound flight.
Security costs should be borne by the government, said David Castelveter, spokesman for the Air Transport Association, whose members include Delta Air Lines Inc. and AMR Corp.’s American Airlines. “The airlines are not under attack; the country is under attack,” Castelveter said.
Even before the Dec. 25 attempt, President Barack Obama’s Homeland Security Department last year proposed increasing a $2.50-a-passenger security fee by $1 annually for three years, starting in fiscal 2012. Airline industry groups opposed the increase, and Congress never acted on it.
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5 comments:
typical, charge everyone more. Let's see if I can explain this dog and pony show for what it is worth. we know who the problem's are being caused by, but due to political correctness we will soon be performing a visual strip search of your grandmother. secondly, you can rent a BBJ with extended range fuel tanks thus giving you the capacity to inflict wome real damage, and you get to by pass all this security and take over the plane and do whatever you want with it. thirdly, remote control unmanned airplanes. load em up with whatever you want and fly them into anything, virtually impossible to stop. so who's fooling who with the dog and pony show!
Our government is so full of sh@t. but if they told you the truth, you couldn't handle it so they continue to lie to you!
Ride the the train.
Of course they will face higher security fees - which they will pass on to us.
That was the whole point of the CIA's efforts to get this bafoon to put plastic explosives into his underwear.
:)
The failure in the panty bomber incident was stupidity not lack of technology. He had no Visa, no baggage, a one way ticket, and not even a coat to wear when he arrived at chilly Detroit. But....
The system worked!!!!
One more reason why I avoid flying. Good job TSA/airlines!
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