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I am trying to operate a few airlines flying turboprops in less populated places. E.g. I want to run a safari airline in East African countries and maybe an airline that covers Northern Canada.

One important factor with these airlines I that taxes and fees are frequently over half the costs for airlines with very small planes. Is this realistic? My limited understanding of this is that most real taxes and fees are proportional to the number of passengers flown and are not a fixed number per flight. Also, there often are actually subsidies for service to small airports in many countries. I attached an example for a small plane flying in Eastern Europe. 

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There was a previous topic that suggested that this would be changed. I'm wondering if there is any attempt to change this? Perhaps to make taxes/fees proportional to the number of passengers carried? Or if people think these high taxes/fees are a realistic and desirable thing.