Katie Pavlich

Air travel tax collection has been temporarily suspended after Congress couldn't come to an agreement about FAA union policies and funding, making airline tickets less expensive. However, it is not yet clear whether airline passengers will have to pay those taxes once an agreement is reached.

Nearly 4,000 people are temporarily out of work and federal airline ticket taxes have been suspended after efforts to avert a shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration failed Friday amid political wrangling over a $16.5 million cut in subsidies to 13 rural communities.



But underlying the dispute on $200 million in rural air service subsidies was a standoff between the GOP-controlled House and the Democratic-controlled Senate over a provision in long-term funding legislation for the FAA that would make it more difficult for airline and railroad workers to unionize.


Katie Pavlich
