In addition to continued General Fund contributions, the Air Transport Association's guiding principles state that the new mechanism for operating, maintaining and modernizing the National Airspace System must include the following 10 principles: Congress must determine and impose a specific schedule of...
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In addition to continued General Fund contributions, the Air Transport Association's guiding principles state that the new mechanism for operating, maintaining and modernizing the National Airspace System must include the following 10 principles:
- Congress must determine and impose a specific schedule of mandatory user charges ? directly and proportionally linking system use with system costs ? which are fair, equitable and simple.
- Each user category may rely on its preferred collection mechanism, providing that each such category does not impose any burden on commercial aviation that is not cost-based.
- Transition over a reasonable period to a metric, in lieu of existing commercial aviation taxes, for assessing aircraft charges based on a percentage formula that incorporates only number of "departures" and "time in system." The departure charge may vary for nighttime operations and size of community.
- Revenue to be segregated from other government revenue and dedicated exclusively to airspace system operations, maintenance and enhancements.
- A dedicated revenue stream, ensuring that revenues are spent in a timely manner for the intended purpose, without additional congressional action.
- Use of a dedicated funding stream that is authorized to support bond financing, ensuring maximum leverage of available financial resources.
- A reformed administrative structure, providing for a direct role in governance proportional to the extent of each user category's financial contribution to the operation, maintenance and enhancement of the national airspace system.
- Autonomous authority granted to the ATO, to facilitate effective cost control and decision-making.
- Operators of piston-powered general aviation aircraft should continue to pay through their fuel tax mechanism.
- Any new FAA funding method established must be fair and based on reasonable indicia of use of the aviation system, as obtained from a credible, reliable and transparent FAA cost accounting system.
Source: ATA
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