US: Trump wants higher TSA fees on airline tickets

President Trump proposed again Monday in his budget blueprint to raise TSA fees on airline tickets, which has been a non-starter in Congress. But TSA technology has been supported by lawmakers, and Trump proposed to invest US$71m in new equipment to make airport screening more effective and faster. Trump proposed to raise the TSA fees for each one-way ticket to US$6.60 from $5.60, for the year starting Oct 1. The fee would also rise from $6.60 to $8.25 per one-way trip in 2020. But airlines and travel advocates have opposed higher fees, and Congress refused to raise the fee when Trump proposed it last year. Meanwhile, TSA has been experimenting since June with Computed Tomography machines. Trump's budget singles out the 3-D scanners as part of new technology to thwart emerging threats to passenger flights. <br/>