New Delhi: The Airports Financial Regulatory Authority (AERA) has cautioned airport operators in India towards imposing unapproved tariffs on passengers. This order comes after AERA seen “few airport operators” of main airports levying fees for aeronautical providers with out getting obligatory regulatory consent.
AERA, established in 2008, determines the charges for key airports, overseeing fees corresponding to touchdown, parking, and floor dealing with providers.
“It’s hereby knowledgeable that airport operators are usually not permitted/entitled to levy and accumulate unapproved fees/tariff charges, and, airport customers/passengers mustn’t pay for it, and in that case, this might be a gross violation of the provisions of AERA Act 2008 and the rules made thereunder,” an AERA discover dated 13 October mentioned.
As per AERA classification, main airports are these which deal with over 3.5 million passengers yearly or as specified by the central authorities.
As per the AERA web site, there are 29 main airports together with Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Cochin, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kannur, Lucknow, Mangalore, Mopa-Goa, Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram, Amritsar, Bhubaneshwar, Calicut, Chennai, Coimbatore, Goa, Indore, Kolkata, Patna, Pune, Raipur, Srinagar, Tiruchirappalli, and Shirdi.
Important airport operators in India embody the Airports Authority of India, Adani Group, and GMR group, amongst others.
AERA emphasised that tariffs for providers at these main airports ought to align with prescribed pointers.
“…all airport operators are hereby directed to observe the statutory observe of well timed filling multi-year tariff proposal earlier than AERA for searching for obligatory regulatory approval of tariff. And chorus from levying any cost on such aeronautical providers for which fees haven’t been accepted by AERA,” the regulator added.
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Up to date: 13 Oct 2023, 09:52 PM IST
Supply: Live Mint