"This isn't designed to make a portion of general
aviation traffic go away. The intent of the program is to share the
expenses."
Source: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International
Airport aviation director Tom Jorgiello, on the airport's
consideration of collecting user fees from corporate and private
pilots operating from the field. Airlines operating from FLL, such
as Spirit Air, have called on GA to start paying their "fair share"
of expenses to maintain the airport -- as well as in hopes of
potentially driving the costs to the airlines down. Proposals
ranging from a flat fee for all aircraft under 15,000 -- penalizing
pilots of Piper Cubs as much as corporate Lear operators -- to an
increase in the airport's 6-cent-per-gallon fuel tax are being