George Osborne is expected to abandon a planned rise in the passenger tax on flying.

The authority has said it cannot construct the rail links without the $100 million the passenger tax is expected to generate each year.

The passenger tax can amount to $3 per departure, or up to $12 on a round-trip ticket that includes connections each way.

Instructions on departure formalities should be obtained here as well; there's a $15 passenger tax.

Alaska, for example, has seen attempts over the years to introduce a passenger tax on cruise ships arriving in its waters.

Increasing the passenger tax and other aviation levies would boost the fund's revenues by an estimated $623 million.

We hoped we could replace the per passenger tax with a per plane tax.

Although this year there have been signs of recovery, officials say British arrivals have continued to fall, something they put down to already high passenger taxes.

Now the Bush Administration is asking Congress to lift that ban and to raise the Federal airline passenger tax to 10 percent.

Legislation now under consideration here would create a passenger tax to pay the bill, so that, as in Europe, there would be no commercial incentive to scrimp.

But Mr. Skinner knows there is a lot of bargaining ahead, and admits that the passenger tax might be too novel an idea to pass this year.

In fact, the Treasury will collect almost twice as much in passenger taxes this year (£2.2 billion) as all other European countries combined (£1.17 billion).

The F.A.A.'s weapon was its power to reject a $3 passenger tax that would be levied on airline tickets to finance the mass-transit plan.

Other islands have longstanding agreements with the cruise industry to keep passenger taxes at current levels or for modest increases, at least for the next several years.

The F.A.A. has only authorized the Port Authority to collect, but not spend, the passenger tax starting in October.

And Senator John C. Danforth, Republican of Missouri who plans to introduce legislation to increase airline industry competition, is studying the passenger tax as well.

In 1997, Southwest unsuccessfully tried to prevent the major airlines from convincing Congress to shift the burden of passenger taxes to short-haul airlines like Southwest.

Administration officials said they wanted explicit written assurances that the city would not end up paying $200 million in construction costs that are not covered by an airline passenger tax.

Therefore my question to Mr Miliband would be: Given that taxing people pollutes our planet, how can further taxes [aircraft passenger tax] reduce pollution?

Madam President, the ETS with cap and auctioning should replace all aviation taxes, air passenger taxes and any potential tax threatened on aviation fuel.

For about two years, the Port Authority has been collecting a $3 passenger tax at the two New York airports and at Newark to pay for preliminary planning of the project.

"UK aviation emissions have more than doubled since 1990 - we need to keep them under control to protect us all from dangerous climate change and an increased passenger tax is one way of doing this.

The report suggests revenue sources like increased state gasoline taxes, local airport passenger taxes, highway tolls, Federal charges on shipping and boating to help pay for Coast Guard activities, and private investment.

Port Authority officials said yesterday that they hope to return to the F.A.A. within three years to request authorization to build the mass transit links and to extend the passenger tax to pay for the project.

Since Congress passed legislation in 1990 allowing collection of the passenger tax, the F.A.A. has authorized airports in Savannah, Ga., Minneapolis and Las Vegas, Nev., to collect the $3 fee.