India continues to remain a high cost environment for airlines to operate in and it is critical to empower the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) further to safeguard the interest of passengers, said Philip Goh, Regional Vice President for Asia Pacific of global airlines body IATA.
AERA decides what tariffs — such as base airport charges, landing charges, parking charges and passenger service fee — can major Indian airports charge an airline or a passenger for a particular period after considering the airports’ expenditure and revenue projections for that period.
Goh told PTI in a statement last week, “Over the past year, with the third control period tariff reviews for India’s major airports, AERA has demonstrated its effectiveness as an independent regulator.”
