Yes, the TSA tax just increased from $2.50 per flight to $5.60 per leg. Connections with more than a four hour layover count as two legs. The bulk of this additional revenue goes towards paying down the national debt with the remainder for increasing TSA security needs.

Let’s use the recent ban on flying to Israel as our example and say that the traveler was going from Dulles to Tel Aviv with a connection in Frankfurt. While the traveler was on the Dulles to Frankfurt flight the ban on flights to Israel was announced. So, the traveler …

The fuel surcharge is based on the distance flown. The longer the flight, the more fuel burned, and therefore the higher the surcharge.