The flying public and certain employees of the Federal Aviation Administration will not have to face a continuing period of uncertainty with Congress agreeing August 4, 2011 to reauthorize agency funding. Lawmakers had not acted to do that prior to adjourning and the impact of the partial FAA shutdown was felt in several notable areas.
Because the House and Senate had not extended FAA tax and spending authority by July 23, federal aviation taxes on airline fuel and tickets expired as of that date. The FAA’s Airport and Airway Trust Fund had been estimated to lose as much as $1.2 billion had the inability to collect the taxes remained through the end of the August congressional break.
Passengers allowed to seek fare refunds
What might have seemed a price advantage for passengers did not materialize during the partial shutdown. When the taxes expired, flyers did have to pay the 7.5% excise tax on U.S. domestic plane tickets, a $3.70 domestic fee for each flight segment, an international travel facilities tax of $16.30 per person for flights that originate or end in the United States, or $8.20 per person for a flights that begin or end in Alaska or Hawaii.
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