[gruez]

>Also, if they tax the fuel (which they certainly should) someone still needs to work out how to apportion that to the individual customers.

Why is this even a problem? Fuel costs money today, yet airlines are somehow able to "apportion that to the individual customers".

[WalterBright]

Right. Every cost a company has is apportioned to the customers. This has to be done, otherwise a company cannot determine the price floor needed to stay in business.