STN erhoeht wohl die Landegebuehren

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So sehen zumindest derzeit die Plaene von BAA aus. Die Landegebuehren sollen nahezu verdreifacht werden um unter anderem die Ausbauplaene zu finanzieren. Die Sache ist noch nicht durch, CAA muss erst noch zustimmen.

 

BAA set to triple Stansted landing fees

 

Landing charges at Stansted Airport are expected to triple under proposals put forward last week by BAA, the �9bn owner of the UK's largest airports.

 

The move was seen by some as a defensive gesture by BAA as the group gears up to defend itself against a hostile bid expected within the next two weeks from Ferrovial, the Spanish infrastructure group.

 

BAA, which also owns Gatwick and Heathrow airports among -others, said it needed the extra income to pay for a �4bn new runway proposed for the Essex airport on which work is due to start in about 2012.

 

However, the proposal to ramp up charges has caused outrage among the airlines using Stansted. Ryanair, the largest operator at the airport, this weekend said it would consider legal action if the plan was accepted by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the airports regulator.

 

Jim Callaghan, Ryanair's head of regulatory affairs, said: "BAA's plans are massively, blatantly gold-plated. There is just no reason to build the type of facilities they are planning."

 

He claimed the plans were based on flawed predictions of passenger growth that had never been verified by independent forecasts and he pointed out that BAA is incentivised to spend as much money as possible rather than invest efficiently.

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He added that BAA was already spending more than �100m on preparatory work for expanding Stansted. "It will all be rolled up into their regulated asset base and we will have to pay for it," he said. "We are praying that someone comes in and takes BAA out or breaks them up; a commercial operator would never blow �4bn on Stansted."

 

Although BAA is a quoted company, its future plans are heavily influenced by government policy, notably a white paper on the future of aviation which spelled out the timetable for building new airport capacity in the South East, first at Stansted, then at Heathrow.

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At its other London airports BAA must use income from its extensive shopping and parking operations to subsidise landing charges. Any improvements or extensions to the facilities at each airport must be paid for by debt serviced from income from that airport, so excess profits at Heathrow could not be used to build a new terminal at Stansted, for example.

 

In December the CAA said it would not relax the ban on cross subsidy from one airport to another, leading BAA to call for the freedom to raise landing charges to pay for expansion. An executive at the CAA said on Friday that it would consider BAA's request.

 

One industry source said: "Ryan-air and easyJet don't see the need at the moment to expand Stansted because all the peak time slots are booked so there is no competition for them."

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[TobiBER]

Dann kann sich ja LTN über mehr Traffic freuen......

[lukifly]

Zahlt FR in STN eigentlich weniger als die anderen?