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A tribute to my friend, the late travel media icon Arthur Frommer
The legendary U.S. travel journalist and entrepreneur Arthur Frommer passed away November 18 at the age of 95. Born in Virginia and with an early boyhood in a small town in Missouri, Arthur was a lawyer who became a pioneering and great travel journalist, and who will be remembered as having helped open the joys of travel to the masses. While serving in the U.S. Army in Europe in the 1950s, he got the travel bug, came out with a travel guide for servicemen, and followed up in 1957 with…
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RE: Exit rows -- Airlines assure safety regulators that anyone assigned exit row seats must be willing and able to open the emergency doors. Of course we know that is questionable whether the seats are sold or assigned randomly.
RE: Excise taxes -- The federal transporation excise tax that is be discussed is assessed only on passengers. Airlines do not pay that tax, you do. It is a tax that is added to airfares and non-optional portions of the ticket. It is hidden and charged directly to passengers, bypassing the airlines.
Senators and Representatives barking up that tree are only suggesting that passenger taxes be increased. The current rules issued by the IRS were issued after a letter from American Airlines asking for clarification of whether baggage fees should be taxed. IRS determined, no. That means we are only paying $35 for a bag for instance instead of $37.62 if it was taxed.
Airlines pay taxes on the profits that they make from all of their fees. Those federal and state corporate taxes are not exempted.