Comments on: The FAA vs. General Aviation

By: FD

FD — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:12:30 +0000

11 cents per litre ? Damn I am gonna start asking for direct all the time now since we are paying so much for the service !!

By: david

david — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:19:55 +0000

Niss: don't forget the $0.11/litre you pay in a special fuel tax to support air traffic services (though when the feds spun off Nav Canada, they decided to hang on to the tax). If you burn 2,000 litres/year, that works out to another $220/year that's at least supposed to help pay for the system.

By: Niss

Niss — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:12:23 +0000

If I am freeloading off of the airlines than my partner and I want our $75 from NAVCANADA back!

By: Flyin Dutchman

Flyin Dutchman — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:43:08 +0000

Maybe if airlines actually charged enough money to cover costs and didn’t try to out do each other with cheap fares this wouldn’t be such a problem.

If GA is “free loading” off the airlines what services are we free loading ? I can think of one comparison….the same reason I can download AVG for home-non profit use while a “business” has to purchase it to do the same purpose. The business is using it in its quest for profit much as airlines use airports and ATC. Can’t compare apples to oranges but and I understand competition in the industry but its the cost of doing business so quit your bitchin airlines

Maybe the Canadian government can give our 55 dollar “medical” fee to airports or Navcanada to take the “burden” of offering us a service that they are in the business of providing !