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Busy day at the airport

March 26, 2008

Busy day at the airport

Starting June 1, St. Augustine-St. Johns Airport Authority will charge $4 per passenger ticket for departing Skybus flights and use the more than $500,000 collected annually for capital projects.

The Authority’s executive director, Ed Wuellner, said this constant and eventually growing stream of money will move the airport a big step closer to being taken off county tax rolls.

Read more at The Record

Written by AuggieNewsHound · Filed Under Tourism 

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3 Responses to “Busy day at the airport”

  1. Admin on April 5th, 2008 10:06 am

    The service charge is kind of a non-story now :)

    We just stuck this in for a place holder. We’ll put up a tourism story soon.

  2. Dunrobin on April 5th, 2008 10:32 am

    Not exactly, Admin :) The service charge will/should move ahead, as it’s not totally dependent on the air carrier to implement. It’s a federal levy attached to the airport… and it hopefully will move forward so that it will be in place when the next carrier begins service to/from St. Augustine, and will collected from day 1 of the new service.

    It’s been in the works since last year, it takes THAT long. Fed Gov’t ya know, lol. I don’t see it stopping now, but anything is possible!

  3. Admin on April 5th, 2008 1:10 pm

    We’ll keep the story up.

    I asked AuggieNewsHound and he just thought the picture was funny.

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