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Chennai fliers may be spared extra fee
Posted on: 15/Oct/2012 11:26:04 AM
Passengers who fly out of the city may be spared an extra burden as the ministry of civil aviation has asked the Airports Authority of India (AAI) not to collect airport development fee from passengers at Chennai airport.
In Mumbai and Delhi airports, passengers pay airport development fee and user development fee.
Though the move will be beneficial for passengers, the cash-strapped AAI will now have to bank only on user development fee to recover the capital expenses incurred to develop and modernise the airport. The ministry directed that Chennai and Kolkata airports being in public sector , they should be excluded from additional fees.
AAI had suggested to the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) to approve 300 for domestic and 1,000 for international passengers as airport development fee at Chennai airport.
AERA is looking at the user development fee request and is gathering feedback from airlines, passengers and other stakeholders. The passengers association wants this, too, to be avoided.
