New Delhi: The aviation ministry has asked Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) to review stay charges levied on business jets parked at Mumbai airport during the lockdown after complaints by nonscheduled operators (NSOPs) that they were too high. MIAL, however, has not acted on suggestions made by the ministry. MIAL CEO Rajiv Jain has been asked to \u201cto kindly look into the issue of levy of stay charges by MIAL as raised by BAOA (Business Aircraft Operators Association) and other NSOP operators, and to find a solution to ameliorate their hardship,\u201d according to the aviation ministry\u2019s late July letter, which ET has seen.<\/p>\n
The rules allow Mumbai airport to levy stay charges on business jets parked for more than 48 hours. These are 30-40 times higher than regular parking rates – the longer the stay, the higher the slab. This is exclusive to Mumbai as it\u2019s the most congested airport in the country. \u201cNormal charges are around Rs 200 per hour depending on weight of the aircraft,\u201d said an aircraft operator. \u201cSame charges become Rs 6,000 per hour after six days or so of overstay beyond 48 hours.\u201d MIAL didn\u2019t respond to ET’s queries. MIAL has also not responded to the ministry\u2019s letter and the NSOP operators are still waiting for a respite along the lines suggested by the aviation ministry. General aviation aircraft operators said that they couldn\u2019t move their planes out of Mumbai during the lockdown because operations by business jets were banned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: The aviation ministry has asked Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) to review stay charges levied on business jets parked at Mumbai airport during the lockdown after complaints by nonscheduled operators (NSOPs) that they were too high. MIAL, however, has not acted on suggestions made by the ministry. MIAL CEO Rajiv Jain has been asked to \u201cto kindly look into the issue of levy of stay charges by MIAL as raised by BAOA (Business Aircraft Operators Association) and other NSOP operators, and to find a solution to ameliorate their hardship,\u201d according to the aviation ministry\u2019s late July letter, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375793","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}