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Increases Will Burden Passengers, Impact Demand, Cost Jobs

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, today called on lawmakers to oppose the President’s proposals to impose a new $100 departure tax on every flight and to triple the passenger security tax to reduce the deficit, saying that hiking aviation taxes would hurt economic recovery, further burden airlines and customers and cost jobs.

“We oppose any new taxes on airlines or their passengers,” ATA President and CEO Nicholas E. Calio said. “We already pay more than our fair share of taxes – more than the alcohol and tobacco industries, whose products are taxed at levels to discourage their use. Today, taxes and fees on a typical $300 round-trip ticket already account for more than $60 of the total cost.”

The industry’s non-income tax burden has grown from $3.7 billion in 1993 to approximately $17 billion today. In 2010, a year in which the entire industry’s profit was under $4 billion, U.S. airlines and their passengers contributed $3.4 billion in taxes and fees to the Department of Homeland Security, including $2 billion in taxes and fees to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) – a 50 percent increase from the amount collected in 2002.

“TSA costs are not all related to aviation. Yet, no other industry or mode of transportation pays for its security as airlines do, even though it is clear that the terrorists targeting commercial aircraft are

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