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EU airport charges Directive: IATA and ACI differ on evaluation report

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The European Commission's Airport Charges Directive of 2009 (the Directive) established a common framework for the regulation of airport charges in the EU and ECAA (European Common Aviation Area).

In Jul-2019, a decade on, the Commission published an evaluation of the Directive in order to assess whether it needs to be reviewed. It applies to airports with at least five million annual passengers or, where there is no such airport, to the largest airport in each member state.

In 2009 the Directive covered 68 airports, handling 75% of passengers in Europe. In 2017, 89 airports (of which 83 in the EU) were covered, handling 85% of passengers. From 2009 to 2017 passenger numbers at the airports covered grew by 55.2% - from 1.0 billion in 2009 to 1.5 billion in 2017 - versus a 38.5% increase in total passenger numbers in Europe (data from the Commission's Jul-2019 report).

Compared to the hypothetical situation where the Directive did not exist, the overall conclusion of the evaluation is that it has led to improvements in the setting of airport charges, although it has not fully met its original objectives.

Perhaps not surprisingly, the airline representative body IATA and airport representative body ACI Europe reacted very differently to the evaluation report.

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