Kansai airport in Japan will cut landing fees for international flights
Kansai International Airport Co. said Monday it will cut its regular landing fees for airlines, which would use larger aircraft or increase the number of their international services, by 80 percent to improve the airport’s competitiveness, beginning in the October-March season.
If an airline opts to take advantage of the discount program, the landing fee for a Boeing 777 with landing weight of 280 tons would be reduced to about 100,000 yen from the regular fee of 580,000 yen. That compares with around 170,000 yen at South Korea’s Incheon International Airport, the company said.
The 80 percent discount will be made available for airlines whose combined landing weight at the Kansai airport near Osaka — calculated by multiplying a plane’s landing weight by the number of flights — grows over the same season the previous year.
The discount, which will be implemented as an emergency step to improve the competitiveness of the airport on an artificial island in Osaka Bay, will continue until late March 2011.
At present, the company is offering a 30 percent cut in regular landing fees for airliners on international routes.
The sharper landing fee discounts “would cost our company hundreds of millions of yen,” Shinichi Fukushima, president of the airport operator, said.
“We want to boost our airport’s advantages to win international competition, although the emergency measure may give us biting pains,” he said.
Topics: administration, aviation, Economy, globally competitive, Governance, international flights, Japan, Kansai, landing fees, recession
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