More on Airline Taxes- How Taxes Impact Pilot Careers  In
yesterday’s post, we wrote about the negative impact high
aviation taxes have for airline pilot jobs.  ALPA and our allies
in aviation labor and industry are also fighting against
increases on existing aviation taxes, such as the TSA Security
Fee.  The U.S. Senate has proposed to increase the current TSA
security $2.50 segment fee (limited to $5 in each direction) to
$5 in each direction (regardless of number of segments). 
Imposing additional taxes like this would be devastating on an
industry that is still trying to recover from years of losses,
leading to huge revenue losses and reductions in service, both
of which could reduce the pilot workforce.  Joakim Karlsson at
MIT has studied how the Senate increase in the TSA security fee
would impact airlines and their employees.   He found that if
airlines chose to absorb the full cost of the new tax, they
would pay an additional $727 million per year in taxes- a huge
sum for an industry with razor thin m