Higher levies to make Mumbai airport costlier for airlines

Shauvik Ghosh
Posted: Thursday, Aug 28, 2008 at 0130 hrs IST
Updated: Thursday, Aug 28, 2008 at 0130 hrs IST

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New Delhi, Aug 27: at airports such as Hyderabad are under the airlines’ control since they are doing all their ground-handling for domestic passengers themselves, thus depriving the developer of its share in the pie. Besides aeronautical revenues, the developers are allowed to charge user development fees from passengers to bridge any revenue gap. But, again, only greenfield airports at Hyderabad and Bangalore have been allowed to charge this levy. The Delhi and Mumbai airports will only be allowed to charge UDF after they finish the first phase of development sometime in 2010. ...

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