{"id":19630,"date":"2013-12-17T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=19630"},"modified":"2013-12-17T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T09:00:09","slug":"tuesday-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=19630","title":{"rendered":"The Security Tax News That Has Tentacles"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was much gnashing of teeth the other day about how airline passengers were going to have to pay an additional $2.50 for <\/span>Transportation Security Administration<\/a> fees, per leg…and just like the human body there's a maximum of two.<\/span><\/p>\n

The increase jumps the per-leg tax to $5.60 or $11.20 for a round trip.<\/p>\n

The airlines don't like it because as collectors they're the bad guys, and that's not good for a business that is already highly taxed. The passengers don't like it because, hey, who likes another tax?<\/p>\n

The government does like it because, according to one estimate, it will put more than $730 million in the coffers, presumably instead of $365 million, which is half as much, the better to pay the always-escalating cost of making sure we don't have too many ounces of shampoo in our carry-ons. <\/p>\n

Yes, the TSA bill.<\/p>\n

The cruise industry, meanwhile, has been silent.<\/p>\n

Its passengers will have to pay more to get to the departure point if they're flying but the bigger issue is probably this: Given that the TSA can also be found between the ship and the shore for cruises, how long will it be until the security tax applies to cruise passengers?<\/p>\n

Per leg.<\/p>\n

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Norwegian Epic<\/a>
\n\t7 nights<\/span>
\n\tJanuary 11, 2014<\/span>
\n\tMiami<\/a> (return): <\/span>St. Maarten<\/a>, <\/span>St. Thomas<\/a>, <\/span>Nassau<\/a>
\n\tBalcony: $699<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $99<\/strong><\/span>
\n\twww.ncl.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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There was much gnashing of teeth the other day about how airline passengers were going to have to pay an additional $2.50 for Transportation Security Administration fees, per leg…and just like the human body there's a maximum of two. The increase jumps the per-leg tax to $5.60 or $11.20 for a round trip. The airlines… Continue reading The Security Tax News That Has Tentacles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,36,19,15],"tags":[137,912,72,819,35,29,126,642,47,1493,1494],"class_list":["post-19630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-epic","tag-norwegian","tag-security","tag-taxes","tag-transportation-security-administration","tag-tsa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}