The Calculator presents typical user contributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund (AATF). Due to the current tax and fee structure, the same flight between two cities might make different AATF contributions each day of the week, because of the factors that compose today's tax and fee equation.
The airline figure is derived from several taxes and fees:
- The 7.5% ticket tax, an average yield, an average load factor, and the number of seats per aircraft
- The $3.30 segment fee, an average load factor, and the number of seats per aircraft
- The 6.25% waybill tax and an average cargo load
- The $0.043 commercial fuel tax, the aircraft's gallon-per-hour fuel consumption, the great-circle distance between the two cities, and an average speed
The corporate jet figure is derived from the following tax:
- The $0.218 non-commercial fuel tax, the aircraft's gallon-per-hour fuel consumption, the great-circle distance between the two cities, and an average speed
The charter jet figure is derived from the following taxes and fees:
- The 7.5% ticket tax and a charter price per hour for each aircraft type. The charter price was obtained in May 2006 from http://www.charterx.com - a leading online aircraft charter broker
- The $3.30 segment fee and an average load factor
- The $0.043 commercial fuel tax, the aircraft's gallon-per-hour fuel consumption, the great-circle distance between the two cities, and an average speed