New airport will burn your pocket
Millions of passengers flying out of two greenfield airports in Hyderabad and Bangalore respectively would have to shell out user development fee beginning March this year.
Both airports plan to charge an airport service fee of Rs 700 a passenger for domestic flights while international passengers would be expected to cough up Rs 900.
Currently passengers pay Rs 225 as regulated by the Airports Authority of India (AAI).
Soon after the hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight in December 1999, the passenger fee was hiked to Rs 225 to bear the financial cost of providing security.
BIAL CEO Albert Brunner insist on imposing a user development fee for domestic and international passengers as part of a concession agreement signed with the Government and has sent a proposal in this regard to the Civil Aviation Ministry.
“It is the core of our revenue stream without which the operations would not be viable,” he said.
But industry analysts expect a backlash on the issue. Subash Goyal, president of the Indian Confederation of Tourism Professional suggested hikes are ‘arbitary and discouraging’.
Source : The New Indian express
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Does AP govt thinks only millionairs live in hyderabad? The fee makes no sense at all. A trip to airport will cost an avarage of Rs. 1600 with transporation costs from city.