Mangalore airport authorities starts collecting user fee

Mangalore: The Mangalore Airport authorities have started collecting user development fee from Wednesday.
Each passenger boarding domestic flights will have to pay Rs 150 and those boarding international flights will have to pay Rs 825. However, there are some exemptions. The fee is not applicable to incoming passengers.
Airport Director M R Vasudeva said that infants would be exempted from paying the fee.
Besides, diplomatic passport holders, crew of airlines on duty and transit passengers need not pay the fee. The user development fee will be in force for 10 years with effect from September 1.
Various airlines will collect the fee from the passengers and remit it to the Airports Authority of India (AAI). The fee includes service tax and collection charges of airlines too.
02/09/10 DHNS/Magalorean.com

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Categories: airports Sep 2010