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06-20-2014, 06:14 PM
Get Ready to Pay More for Airport Security
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Starting in mid-July, airline passengers will be paying more fees for security at the airport.
Following orders from Congress, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is poised to raise the security screening fee to $5.60 each way. This fee, which is included in your ticket price, is up from $2.50 each way for a **nstop flight and $5 for a trip including connections.
See also: K**w Before You Go: All the Airline Fees by Carrier (http://mashable.com/2014/06/14/airline-fees/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Trips with long stopovers — more than four hours on most domestic travel — will have bigger increases because each leg will trigger a new fee
The fee is used to finance "the increased cost of securing the nation's transportation systems," according to the TSA (http://www.tsa.gov/stakeholders/transportation-security-fees). In 2013, the security fee on passengers raised more than $1.8 billion (http://www.tsa.gov/stakeholders/historical-fee-collection-data) for the TSA, or about 20% of its $8 billion annual budget. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/airline-fee-increase/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Starting in mid-July, airline passengers will be paying more fees for security at the airport.
Following orders from Congress, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is poised to raise the security screening fee to $5.60 each way. This fee, which is included in your ticket price, is up from $2.50 each way for a **nstop flight and $5 for a trip including connections.
See also: K**w Before You Go: All the Airline Fees by Carrier (http://mashable.com/2014/06/14/airline-fees/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Trips with long stopovers — more than four hours on most domestic travel — will have bigger increases because each leg will trigger a new fee
The fee is used to finance "the increased cost of securing the nation's transportation systems," according to the TSA (http://www.tsa.gov/stakeholders/transportation-security-fees). In 2013, the security fee on passengers raised more than $1.8 billion (http://www.tsa.gov/stakeholders/historical-fee-collection-data) for the TSA, or about 20% of its $8 billion annual budget. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/20/airline-fee-increase/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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