{"id":162626,"date":"2012-02-07T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=162626"},"modified":"2012-02-08T12:19:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:19:05","slug":"passenger-fee-increase-planned-at-east-texas-regional-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=162626","title":{"rendered":"Passenger Fee Increase Planned at East Texas Regional Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=162809\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-162809\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/02\/East-Texas-Regional-Airport-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"East Texas Regional Airport\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-162809\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 On a 4-1 vote, Gregg County commissioners on Monday began a process to increase passenger fees at East Texas Regional Airport by $1.50 per person in 2013. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report that for almost 10 years, passengers using the airport have paid a $3 fee, with the money going to the local match required for Federal Aviation Authority grants. The FAA traditionally funds 95% of projects, such as a recently completed parking lot upgrade and a coming terminal renovation. The county pitches in 5%. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like the federal government is getting ready to up the matching funds from 5 percent to 10 percent,\u201d County Judge Bill Stoudt said. \u201cSo all the airports are changing   the fee.\u201d Stoudt and Airport Manager Rick Davis said the fee, called a Passenger Facility Charge, would not change until the court conducts a public hearing and votes on a resolution to raise it. \u201cWe\u2019re considering going up to $4.50,\u201d Davis said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a done deal that we\u2019re going to. \u2026 Everyone in the industry tells us we should go up to $4.50.\u201d In objecting to the potential fee increase, Commissioner Darryl Primo said it could discourage people from choosing the local airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 On a 4-1 vote, Gregg County commissioners on Monday began a process to increase passenger fees at East Texas Regional Airport by $1.50 per person in 2013. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report that for almost 10 years, passengers using the airport have paid a $3 fee, with the money going to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=162626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Passenger Fee Increase Planned at East Texas Regional Airport<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-23 07:27:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162626"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162964,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162626\/revisions\/162964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}