You plane ticket is about to get more expensive and it has nothing to do with luggage or fuel. The TSA, which has not stopped any terrorists that I am aware of, is raising their fees by over 50% and charging some flights doubly. Please go to regulations.gov and submit comments: The way the TSA applies the fees to airfares will get slightly more complex, too. The TSA will $5.60 charge for each flight leg that occurs more than four-hours following a previous leg, for domestic flights. Internationally and for flights to Hawaii and Alaska, the same rule applies for legs that are 12 hours apart. This means that flights with long layovers, which would have previously counted as a single one-way trip, will get taxed doubly. So a round-trip flight with two four-hour connections would cost an additional $22.40 in security fees. These changes were enacted in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, and they officially go into effect at 12 a.m. Eastern Time on July 21. But if you buy your tickets before July 21, you wont have to pay the higher fees, no matter when youre flying. Annoyed? Angry? Happy to foot the bill for backscatters and pat-downs? No matter what youre thinking, you still have time to give the government your two cents. According to the Federal Register notice on the rule, You may submit comments, identified by the TSA docket number to this rulemaking, to the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS), a government-wide, electronic docket management system, using any one of the following methods: Electronically: You may submit comments through the Federal eRulemaking portal at regulations.gov. Americans have until August 19 to sound off. smartertravel/blogs/today-in-travel/tsa-fee-hike-goes-into-effect-this-month.html?id=19099668
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 15:00:42 +0000
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