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Burlington-area airport urges Senate Finance to strip 2% jet-fuel surcharge from transport bill
Summary
Jeff Bartley, the airport director, told the Senate Finance Committee a 2% jet-fuel surcharge in H 9 44 would make the airport less competitive, risk passenger and airline responses that reduce revenue, and urged the committee to remove sections imposing the surcharge; committee members asked for data and signaled intent to remove the jet-fuel language.
Jeff Bartley, director of innovation and marketing for the Patrick Leighton Crossing International Airport, asked the Senate Finance Committee to remove the 2% jet-fuel surcharge added to the transportation bill H 9 44, saying the change was added without local input and could harm the airport's growth and competitiveness.
"What what we are asking for today is simply that the senate finance committee remove the 2% jet fuel surcharge from h 9 44," Bartley said in his prepared remarks, and he walked the committee through the airport's economic-impact numbers to show the…
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