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Aena will apply a bonus on the Palma Airport rates Standard

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The AENA’s General Manager, Mr. Javier Marín, has announced they will progressively apply a bonus of up to 40% on airport rates in Palma during the winter months by an agreement signed with the Mayor of Palma de Mallorca under the frame of Fundación Turismo Palma de Mallorca 365, with the intention of bringing down the seasonality of this airport.During the act, Mr. Marin has highlighted the passenger’s inflow by 65% in summer compared to 35% in winter. Thus, Baleares is the only area that may benefit from this measure. According to Preferente.com, he defended the non application in the Canaries because the…

AENA clarifies Airport charges increases Standard

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Following to ABC’s news of yesterday, AENA has published a press release confirming the agreement reached with the airlines that contains the following points:• The agreement provides an update of rates increase for the next five years (2014-2018). In particular, the document says:– 2014: CPI + 1 point– 2015: CPI + 3 points– 2016, 2017 and 2018: CPI + 4 points• The agreement sets 1st of March as the effective date for annual revision. Consequently this increase will not affect to January and February 2014.• The reduction of fee for Passenger on Connecting flights will be increased gradually fm 20% to 40%…

Agreement on the airport charges increase Standard

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Following with the Aena’s charges increase and our previous posts to this respect, ABC.es informs today about the fact thatthe airport charge increase will be CPI plus one point in 2014.AENA will announce today the tentative agreement reached with the airlines to absorb the rise in airport charges for the next five years.This agreement shall be signed by the Minister of Development, Ms. Ana Pastor and the airline associations ALA and ACETA. With this, they foresee a significant reduction over the expected increases until 2018.According to sources close to the negotiations, the agreement goes through an increase for the forthcoming year 2014 of CPI…

Aena to moderate the increases as from 2014 Standard

Aena to moderate the increases: Following with our post about a possible moderation in the increase of charges that Aena might be considering, laprovincia.es informed on Wednesday in the same direction.According to this piece of news, the drop in traffic might have forced Aena to moderate the increases.In spite of the fact that the law allows Aena to increase their charges with 5 points over the CPI, Aena would be willing to soften the financial crisis impact on the industry. Hence, they would have specified that these increases might be moderated as from 2014.The option they are working with at this moment is to…

Aena moderates the tax increase Standard

The Minister of Public Works, Ana Pastor, has mediated between Aena and the airlines so that they can reach an agreement which might help to alleviate the industry.As a result of this approach between Aena and ALA—airline’s association—the expected tax increase of IPC + 5% which was already applied for the current year, would not be applied again in five years. According to the media, this might have been called pax tarifaria (tax peace) between both parties. Also, Aena expects ACETA—one of the Spanish airline’s associations—joins this agreement too.This change of stance in Aena might be intended to have an overall support…

En-route charge could be increased in 2014 Standard

The General Manager of Air Navigation, Mr. Ignacio González, has announced that the en-route charge could be increased in 2014.In a meeting held with the media, Ignacio Gonzalez explained that the en-route charge in Spain could increase in 2014, after a couple of years of being frozen. According to Gonzalez, it is too early to confirm if this will happen. A lot of work still has to be done and many variables need to be analyzed before taking this decision. It will depend on whether the traffic is growing or not, and whether Air Navigation can continue to reduce the…

F factor to increase by 50% Standard

The Governments’ party has proposed in the Congress an amendment to the “Ley de Seguridad Aérea de 2003” in order to replace the current F Factor (0.38 €) associated to the Security Tax, by a new rate to support the activities of supervision and inspection services performed by AESA.This new rate will be of € 0.58 per departing passenger from any Spanish Airport, and it will be reduced by the 15% on flights from Canary Islands, Balearic Islands, Ceuta and Melilla to peninsular airports, and by 70% on Inter-Island flights.The entry into force of the new rate will occur within…