{"id":309804,"date":"2020-01-10T10:39:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T05:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309804"},"modified":"2020-01-10T10:54:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T05:24:36","slug":"relief-to-airlines-govt-scraps-fuel-throughput-charge-at-all-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/relief-to-airlines-govt-scraps-fuel-throughput-charge-at-all-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief to airlines: Govt scraps fuel throughput charge at all airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fuel bill of airlines is set to reduce as the civil aviation ministry has ordered discontinuation of the fuel throughput charge (FTC) collected by airports from oil companies. <\/p>\n<p>People in the know said the move will help airlines save close to Rs 500 crore per year. Fuel is one of the highest cost components for airlines. <\/p>\n<p>Airports levy charges such as FTC, infrastructure charge, and into-plane charges on sale of jet fuel. The levy is passed through to airlines, pushing up costs. FTC varies from airport to airport. At Mumbai airport, Rs 1,000 is levied per kilolitre of jet fuel. A kilolitre of ATF is priced at Rs 64,529 in Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fuel bill of airlines is set to reduce as the civil aviation ministry has ordered discontinuation of the fuel throughput charge (FTC) collected by airports from oil companies. People in the know said the move will help airlines save close to Rs 500 crore per year. Fuel is one of the highest cost components for airlines. Airports levy charges such as FTC, infrastructure charge, and into-plane charges on sale of jet fuel. The levy is passed through to airlines, pushing up costs. FTC varies from airport to airport. At Mumbai airport, Rs 1,000 is levied per kilolitre of jet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}