Airline tax hike would unfairly hit Maine passengers

This [tax hike] would fall especially hard on travelers going places via most of Maine’s airports. Because of the way flights are arranged currently, connecting flights are a huge ingredient of getting people places. This increase in the PFC would be, effectively, a tax on connecters.

…Families, businessmen, and farmers would be forced to pay proportionally more for all the flights that they take than folks next to airports with lots of direct flights.