Who can tax a satellite?

Bill Stewart bill.stewart at pobox.com
Wed Jul 18 13:31:02 PDT 2001


So how much does Cuban Air Traffic Control charge for U2 overflight support?
1960 - 2001, with some reasonable interest rates for late payments....



At 07:53 PM 07/12/2001 -1000, Reese wrote:
>At 10:43 PM 7/11/01, Tim May wrote:
>
> >>One real world example of such.
> >
> >Learn to use a search engine. Search on the obvious terms, like
> >"airlines overflight payments."
> >
> >The first such hit you will find in Google, one of hundreds, is:
> >
> >"FAA ESTIMATES CUBA OWES US$1 MILLION FOR OVERFLIGHT FEES-
> >Information obtained from an inquiry to the Federal Aviation
> >Administration (FAA) within the United States Department of
> >Transportation by the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council shows that
> >Republic of Cuba government-operated Cubana Airlines and Republic of
> >Cuba government-operated AeroCaribbean Airlines were invoiced
> >approximately US$1 million by the FAA for the period May 1997 to 31
> >January 1998 for overflight fees."
> >
> >
> >Is this enough for the "one real world example"?
>
>Is that datum from cubatrade.org or cubaonline.org?
>How about from a real website?





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