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Another would increase the $2.50 federal security fee (budgeted to go up by $1 a flight in 2012).
For travel within the United States, there are four basic taxes on airfares: a passenger ticket tax (7.5 percent of the base fare); a flight segment tax ($3.70 a flight); a passenger facility charge (up to $4.50 a segment); and a federal security fee, also called the Sept. 11 fee ($2.50 a segment).
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Airport surcharges and federal security fees can add as much as $30 to those fares, depending on the itinerary.
In the period a year earlier, Delta posted a $184 million profit, thanks to a refund of federal security fees.
US Airways lost $90 million in the third quarter, when other carriers posted small profits, buoyed by healthy summer traffic and refunds of federal security fees.
The airline also failed to disclose the cost of federal security fees and it did not disclose fees or taxes separately from the price of its fares on its Web site.
The taxes come to $45.87, including the security fee, federal segment tax of $3.20 , 7.5percent federal excise tax, and $4.50 passengerr facility charge".
The total price for a domestic ticket includes a 7.5percentt federal tax; a Sept. 11 security fee of $2.50 a flight segment (or takeoff and landing), up to $10; passenger facility charges of $3 to $4.50 per airport, up to $18; and a federal fee of $3.40 a segment.
Though other major carriers posted small profits during the third quarter, helped by federal refunds of security fees and healthy summer traffic, US Airways lost $90 million, although that was a big improvement from its $330 million loss in the quarter a year earlier.
That's a question a federal oversight body and members of Congress are asking, especially since the T.S.A. plans to spend billions to buy the devices and hire more screeners to operate them — using the $5 to $10 security fee included in the price of any airline ticket (fees that the government wants to raise).
Federal security costs in Atlanta were $101 million.
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