ASTA设定了第四轮刺激的优先级
经过丹尼尔·麦卡锡(Daniel McCarthy)/
ASTA周二对下一轮Covid-19刺激的优先事项提出了更新,该刺激可能会通过国会进行。
Congress still has not confirmed that it is looking at passing a fourth round of stimulus and White House officials said this past weekend that they are not actively seeking a stimulus funding, but ASTA is still making its priorities known for when the times comes.
In a notice released on Tuesday, ASTA said the current CARES Act programs, which did provide some relief to its members, “is unlikely to be sufficient given that travel was the first industry impacted and is likely to be one of the last to fully recover from the crisis.”
根据ASTA的一项调查,其成员在5月1日至8日之间,其成员中有64.8%申请了PPP贷款,已批准了56.2%的贷款。那些尚未获得批准的人发现这一过程很困难,包括找到愿意接受其申请的金融机构。
超过60%的人申请了经济伤害灾难贷款(EIDL),只有25.9%的批准,超过75%的人申请了失业福利,并获得了33.4%的批准。
尽管这些计划是重要的步骤,但要继续在Covid-19危机期间继续保持其顾问成员漂浮,ASTA正在推动国会以下内容:
“售票代理”将添加到第4112节中
ASTA希望将《关怀法》第4112条修订,该法案允许财政部向航空公司和某些承包商支付付款,以包括“售票代理”,并将资金增长到77亿美元。
这将使顾问资金用于薪资支持(根据ASTA调查,预计为2020年旅行社的收入损失为77亿美元。
“While a portion of our membership has been able to access relief under several of the CARES Act’s programs, this relief is unlikely to be sufficient given that travel was the first industry impacted,” ASTA wrote.
PPP的扩展
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in the CARES Act was the centerpiece that was thought to be the savior for a lot of small businesses. However, according to ASTA, “shortcomings associated with the PPP’s rollout and implementation suggest the need for improvements” including an increase in funding to $900 billion, an extension through the end of 2020, an increase in maximum threshold from 250% of monthly payroll to 400% of all business expenses, and an increase in the loan forgiveness provisions from 8 weeks to 12 weeks.
ASTA还要求PPP贷款条款从两年转移到至少五年,非付款宽恕上限从25%提高到50%,并且员工上限将其限制为2,000。ASTA还表示,需要澄清PPP,以回答ICS是否可能包括在确定PPP贷款金额的工资单中。
售票代理贷款的额外资金
The $25 billion from the Treasury Department that was earmarked to go to airlines, aircraft repair stations, and “ticket agents,” the statutory term for advisors, should be increased and the loan extended to 10 years to accommodate “the travel industry’s long anticipated recovery.”
ASTA仍然期望其大多数成员在《 Cares Act》中获得救济。