Airline groups are joining forces to protest Curacao Airport’s 150% fee increase in taxes and landing fees. Curacao Airport Partners (CAP)—the international consortium that manages Curacao International Airport—announced the hike Nov. 30, 2012 and made it effective Dec. 1, 2012.
Earlier this month, Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) criticized the fees and sent an official message to the minister of traffic, transport and regional planning of Curacao, protesting the “unjustified measure to increase airport revenues at the expense of passengers and carriers.”
IATA and the Curacao Airline Association (CAA) are now joining the protest and are leading a coalition of aviation groups to reinforce the industry’s concern “over the significant increases in landing fees and passenger facility charges imposed on passengers and airlines operating to Curacao.”