These are all good points. But when you’re talking about an industry that is as heavily subsidized as the airlines, you have to include a lot of other considerations when you look at the impacts of taxes and fees on the customers.
“you have to include a lot of other considerations”
Agreed but if people and businesses decided with conviction to make do without flying it could start a chain reaction that would push out all private company competition, clearing the way for a federal takeover of the industry, which might be the game plan, anyway. We are, and have been, behind the socialist curve for decades now.