International passengers to pay UDF at Hyderabad airport

New Delhi: International passengers using Hyderabad will have to pay Rs 1,100 or $28 as user development fee (UDF) when the new airport starts operations. This includes a service tax of 12.36 per cent that would go to the Centre.
The Civil Aviation Ministry has pegged the UDF ceiling for international passengers departing from Hyderabad at Rs 1,000.
Sources told Business Line that the UDF will be collected by the airlines and given to Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (HIAL), the new company set up to run the greenfield airport, which in turn would pass on service tax component to the Government.
The Government had fixed the UDF charges at Rs 950 for international passengers departing from the new airport in Bangalore. The new Hyderabad airport is being developed by a consortium headed by the GMR group while a Siemens-led consortium is developing the Bangalore project.
18/03/08 Ashwini Phadnis & K.R. Srivats/Business Line/Sify

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