PASSENGER FACILITY CHARGES: PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION AND THE POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF PROPOSED CHANGES

Since the early 1990s, most of the nation's passenger service airports have been able to charge passengers a boarding fee of $1, $2, or $3, called a passenger facility charge, to help pay for their capital development projects. These charges now total about $1.4 billion a year. The program is managed by the Federal Aviation Administration, which approves an airport's application to participate and the specific projects to be funded. This report (1) describes how the passenger facility charge program is helping airports fund their capital development, and (2) discusses the potential impact of various proposals to change the program, including the option of making no change.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Report to Congressional Committees.
• Corporate Authors:

  U.S. General Accounting Office

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  Washington, DC  United States  20548
• Publication Date: 1999-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 73 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airports; Capital costs; Development; Financing; Impact studies; Passenger service; Proposals; User charges
• Uncontrolled Terms: Passenger facility charges
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Finance; Passenger Transportation; Research; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00765995
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: GAO/RCED/99-138,, B-281079
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 23 1999 12:00AM