ACI Europe: Airport Charges, Beauty Contests & Airline Nostalgia

Sep-2017 Over the past 2 years - and especially since airlines' representation in Brussels has been overhauled - discussions about how to finance airport infrastructure in Europe have systematically led to entrenched, yet mostly sterile debates. Constant bickering about issues such as single-versus-dual tills, consultation mechanisms, cost-relatedness and transparency all come down to airlines asking for more regulatory intervention to control airports - which they essentially portray as being natural monopolists, hopelessly inefficient and earning far too much money.