Originally Posted by
Freds Ex
1. You are naive and live in a dream world where you think that you could offer user fees and get your fuel tax back.
The only thing that will ever be put on the table by politicians is user fees in addition to fuel tax.
2. A typical king air consumes far less airport/ATC resources and airspace on a flight than a 777 does. If you truly don’t understand this, I don’t know what to tell you… besides maybe turn in your certs.
We're not talking airport resources, which are captured by landing fees. We're talking ATC services. A vector, separation services, flight plan filing. Granted the 777 requires more separation, and their fees would be higher.
But you haven't explained why taxing fuel is the most fair solution. You've just resorted to ad hominems. Let's take two flights from NYC to MIA. One is a Citation and it burns 6,000 pounds of fuel. The other is a 777 and it burns 60,000 pounds. Do you really think the 777 was 10x the burden on ATC?
User fees are successfully used in Canada, UK and Germany.
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-...system-broken/