Just a few weeks after the passage of a $64 billion FAA reauthorization bill – a bill void of both user fees and increases on aviation fuel taxes – the Obama administration revived the call for user fees when it unveiled its recent budget proposal for the 2013 fiscal year on Monday.
The new proposal again lays out a $100 per flight user fee on aircraft operating within controlled airspace. According to the proposal, the fee would collect $7.4 billion over the next decade and would cover close to three-fourths of airport investment and air traffic control costs.
