Ahmedabad, Thiruvananthapuram airports get nod to impose user fees

New Delhi: The government has approved the imposition of a user development fee from next year for the Ahmedabad and Thiruvananthapuram airports that are being developed by the Airports Authority of India (AAI).
These will be the first AAI-run airports to impose the fee, which, the aviation ministry officials say, could be in the region of Rs 300 per passenger. The government had earlier approved the imposition of such fees for the new Bangalore and Hyderabad airports being developed under public-private partnerships.
Ahmedabad and Thiruvananthapuram are among the 35 smaller airports being developed by the AAI, all of which are entitled to approach the government for permission to impose the fee. Their modernisation plans are scheduled to be implemented by February or March 2009.
14/05/08 Anirban Chowdhury/Business Standard

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Categories: Airports May 2008