India misreads airport tariff policies on regulation of airports: Global bodies

New Delhi: The UN's global body for civil aviation and UK's civil aviation regulator have charged India's civil aviation ministry of misinterpreting their airport tariff policies in a recent consultation paper on regulation of airports.
The civil aviation ministry has in the consultation paper said the UN's International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) no longer supports the single-till model of revenue collection and that UK's use of this model was a 'historical anomaly' caused by its bilateral agreement with the US.
Both these bodies have disputed these statements in written replies to ET. While the ICAO has said it would be incorrect to say that it supports the alternative dual-till model, the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has said the bilateral agreement cited by the ministry has been discarded and that it considers the single-till model to be the most cost-effective method of price controls.
12/06/12 Vikas Dhoot/Economic Times

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Categories: Foreign Jun 2012, Indian Aviation- In General Jun 2012