Airport Panel to Urge FAA to Extend $3 Passenger Fee
The Board of Commissioners for Los Angeles International Airport voted Tuesday to ask the Federal Aviation Administration to allow LAX to continue collecting the $3 fee charged to all departing passengers until 2004.
The FAA approved LAX’s collection of the fees from Feb. 1 through May 2000 to help fund the airport’s noise mitigation program. LAX officials want to extend the time period by four years to raise additional funds to purchase as many as 2,500 homes and apartments east of the runway.
Airport officials estimate that more than $320 million could be collected during the extended period. The money would be used to bulldoze buildings that are heavily impacted by noise from the airport. The plan, which must receive City Council and FAA approval, would take place in conjunction with the airport’s existing soundproofing program.
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