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It would cost us over 30k dollars to fill our gulfstream sometimes. over half of that was in taxes. and the landing/parking fees nearing 1000 bucks per stop. We pay our fair share for ATC services all over the world. You should see bills from transport canada for just flying overhead. Yeah I guess we should hold for the jetstream at smx. Its only fair.
I don't know how many hours of my life I lost waiting for airline traffic to take off out of BUR so I could depart out of VNY. Or the times I was in TEB having to taxi back to the FBO for more fuel because I was holding for over 2 hours for EWR traffic.
And the comment about that pax being so important? Well last time I checked you are free to go out and put yourself in a position to be flying as a pax on a gulfstream too. If you don't want to put in the work to do it then just deal with being a blue collar pilot. Its kind of a free country.
Yeah, what he said.Originally Posted by FrontSeat
Do you realize the taxes that Gulfstream pays on fuel? and the property/use taxes he pays?It would cost us over 30k dollars to fill our gulfstream sometimes. over half of that was in taxes. and the landing/parking fees nearing 1000 bucks per stop. We pay our fair share for ATC services all over the world. You should see bills from transport canada for just flying overhead. Yeah I guess we should hold for the jetstream at smx. Its only fair.
I don't know how many hours of my life I lost waiting for airline traffic to take off out of BUR so I could depart out of VNY. Or the times I was in TEB having to taxi back to the FBO for more fuel because I was holding for over 2 hours for EWR traffic.
And the comment about that pax being so important? Well last time I checked you are free to go out and put yourself in a position to be flying as a pax on a gulfstream too. If you don't want to put in the work to do it then just deal with being a blue collar pilot. Its kind of a free country.