{"id":661079,"date":"2010-02-11T02:27:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T07:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=9626"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:29:00","slug":"to-fly-or-not-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/661079","title":{"rendered":"To fly or not to fly?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From Canwest “Federal government may hike air-security tax: Airlines<\/a><\/strong>“,<\/p>\n

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“Canadian airline passengers should brace for the possibility of pricier travel after next month’s federal budget, a roundtable on air security was told Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Michael Skrobica, a spokesman for the commercial aviation industry, said he fears the Conservative government will feel “huge pressure” to hike the air travellers security tax in a bid to offset the cost of expensive full-body scanners and other new security measures without adding to the already massive deficit.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As if all the harassment in the airport is NOT enough, the fed was us to pay for the harassment.<\/p>\n

To fly or not to fly? is the question.<\/p>\n

Filed under: Calgary<\/a>, Canada<\/a>, Law<\/a>, security<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Canwest “Federal government may hike air-security tax: Airlines“, “Canadian airline passengers should brace for the possibility of pricier travel after next month’s federal budget, a roundtable on air security was told Wednesday. Michael Skrobica, a spokesman for the commercial aviation industry, said he fears the Conservative government will feel “huge pressure” to hike the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":780,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LYz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762638,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661079\/revisions\/762638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}