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Posted by JohnL on Sun Feb 17 20:09:03 2008, in response to Re: Diagrams Re: Air Train question, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Feb 17 19:48:15 2008. Chris,Nothing on the airport is free. It is all paid for somehow or other. The airport roads are “free”—except that the PA has to pay to pave them and upgrade them. Remember the major upgrades about 10 years ago, when there were ramps being built everywhere? The cost for those upgrades, and the airport roads in general, is built into the passenger facility charge. This appears as a portion of the money that passengers pay to fly. Likewise, the passengers who use AirTrain as a circulator to get from one terminal to another, don’t pay an explicit charge. You argue that the charge for parkers is built into the daily parking charge. Maybe. Did the parking charges increase when AirTrain opened? I don’t think so. The same situation is true, by the way at Newark airport. So it does reasonably beg a question about why the costs of AirTrain can’t be built into the passenger facility charge. The big benefit of this is that it is a positive encouragement to come to the airports by rail rather than road. I think this benefit is seriously underestimated. However, I can see that the airlines, who have to pass PFCs onto their customers want to minimize them, so they have managed to make the $5 AirTrain charge stick. I doubt the Port Authority cares: it’s going to collect its money one way or the other. |
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