{"id":2806,"date":"2011-07-26T13:44:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T17:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2011-07-26T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T17:44:45","slug":"airline-taxes-are-illegal-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/airline-taxes-are-illegal-now\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Airline Taxes are Illegal now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/26\/business\/airlines-raise-fares-as-federal-taxes-expire.html\">NYTimes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Friday, Congress failed to approve the extension of a bill to keep the Federal Aviation Administration running. Among other things, that meant the agency no longer had the authority to impose the various federal taxes that airlines add to the price of each ticket.<\/p>\n<p>So as of 12:01 a.m. Saturday, the federal government began losing an estimated $25 million a day in tax revenue.<\/p>\n<p>But did airlines simply pass on this savings to customers?<\/p>\n<p>No, they did not.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, evidently in anticipation of the tax\u2019s expiring, some airlines quietly began raising fares \u2014 on average, roughly by the same amount as the federal taxes. Others did the same over the weekend, and most of the rest joined in on Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Assholes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYTimes: On Friday, Congress failed to approve the extension of a bill to keep the Federal Aviation Administration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-Jg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2589,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/06\/16\/airlines-collected-3-4b-in-bag-fees-in-2010\/","url_meta":{"origin":2806,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;Airlines Collected $3.4B in Bag Fees in 2010&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"AP (via YouTube): The 24 percent increase from 2009 shows how the airlines are increasingly reliant on charging for once-free services to make money. 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