Airlines to discuss steep hike in airport charges

New Delhi: The Board of Airlines (BOA) representatives, having a membership of around 40 airlines, will soon hold a crucial meeting to chalk out a common strategy to deal with the hefty hike of 344 per cent in airport charges which has already made major airlines re-work the investment plans and strategy towards India, a move that could impact Delhi’s chances of emerging as an aviation hub.
About 10 airlines have already filed a petition in the Delhi High Court against the steep hike in airport charges and the BOA meeting is being held to enlist the support of other airlines in an effort to bring them together on a single platform to contest this “arbitrary and unjust” hike in charges. Lufthansa group airlines (including Austrian and Swiss International), Air France, KLM, United and Virgin are part of the petition. These airlines carry about 30 per cent of the outbound traffic from India.
10/08/12 Sujay Mehdudia/The Hindu

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Categories: airports Aug 2012