U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said airlines shouldn’t have raised fares by the amount of excise taxes they stopped collecting July 23, when the Federal Aviation Administration’s revenue-raising authority expired.
“They’re collecting this money and it’s going to their bottom line and I think that is not right,” LaHood said at a White House press briefing in Washington today. “It’s not fair for them to do that, and I made that known to them.”
