American sees - and hopes for - user fees instead of the ticket tax
Reading congressional tea leaves, American hopes the 10% ticket tax, which again will expire at the end of calendar 1996, will return as a user fee. "There is some good momentum to effect this," Chief Financial Officer Gerard Arpey said recently.
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