{"id":305205,"date":"2010-02-11T02:27:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T07:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=9626"},"modified":"2010-02-11T02:27:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T07:27:50","slug":"to-fly-or-not-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/305205","title":{"rendered":"To fly or not to fly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>From Canwest &#8220;<strong><a title=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/news\/Federal+government+hike+security+Airlines\/2547534\/story.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/news\/Federal+government+hike+security+Airlines\/2547534\/story.html\" >Federal government may hike air-security tax: Airlines<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Canadian airline passengers should brace for the possibility of pricier travel after next month&#8217;s federal budget, a roundtable on air security was told Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Skrobica, a spokesman for the commercial aviation industry, said he fears the Conservative government will feel &#8220;huge pressure&#8221; to hike the air travellers security tax in a bid to offset the cost of expensive full-body scanners and other new security measures without adding to the already massive deficit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As if all the harassment in the airport is NOT enough, the fed was us to pay for the harassment.<\/p>\n<p>To fly or not to fly? is the question.<\/p>\n<p>Filed under: <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/calgary\/'>Calgary<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/canada\/'>Canada<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/law\/'>Law<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/security\/'>security<\/a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9626\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9626\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9626\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9626\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9626\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9626\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9626\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9626\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9626\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9626\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=kempton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=364107&#038;post=9626&#038;subd=kempton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Canwest &#8220;Federal government may hike air-security tax: Airlines&#8220;, &#8220;Canadian airline passengers should brace for the possibility of pricier travel after next month&#8217;s federal budget, a roundtable on air security was told Wednesday. Michael Skrobica, a spokesman for the commercial aviation industry, said he fears the Conservative government will feel &#8220;huge pressure&#8221; to hike the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}