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Officials Hike Airline Fees For Airport Expansion

SACRAMENTO (AP) ― Sacramento County supervisors are moving ahead with a $1.3 billion expansion to Sacramento International Airport despite objections by airlines.

The supervisors plan to increase airline fees to pay for a new terminal, hotel, parking garage and people-moving tram.

They unanimously agreed this week to boost the fee the airport charges each airline, from an average of $6 to $9 per passenger. The fee hike would start July 1 and would top out at more than $13 per passenger in 2013 before being gradually being lowered.

Airline executives told supervisors the fees are too high and that the expansion is too ambitious at a time of high fuel prices and intense competition.

Supervisors say the airlines waited too long to complain. They are hurrying to start the expansion to avoid pending federal rules that could limit airport development.

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