New fees to pay for Runways.

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Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 13:49:01 PDT


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Subject: New fees to pay for Runways.
From: Richard Zimmerman <stopsfo@ProtectOurBay.com-DeleteThis>
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S.F. Airport to charge passengers departure taxes

Published Wednesday, September 20, 2000
in the San Jose Mercury News

Every passenger who flies out of San Francisco International Airport will
soon pay an extra $4.50 toward the facility's proposed runway expansion
under a move taken by the airport commission on Tuesday.

The tax, which will appear under the ambiguous term ``Passenger Facility
Charge'' on everyone's tickets, would secure almost $92 million annually to
pay for a massive runway system that airport officials want to build into
San Francisco Bay to alleviate delays.

Under federal law, airports have been permitted to levy a departure tax for
years, but San Francisco Airport officials never invoked the tax because the
facility made enough money from airline landing fees and retail stores to
pay for its operations. Facing runway construction that could top $3.5
billion and the balance on its new, $1 billion International Terminal,
however, the airport had to find additional sources of income, said Ron
Wilson, chief airport spokesman.

The additional tax could appear on passenger tickets as early as next
summer.

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