"Operator of Nagoya, Japan-area airport sets landing fees at 655,700 yen"

Monday, November 15, 2004

Operator of Nagoya, Japan-area airport sets landing fees at 655,700 yen
Japan - Kyodo News 


The operator of Chubu Centrair International Airport, due to open in
February 2005 near Nagoya, said Monday it has set landing fees at 655,700
yen for a Boeing 747-400 jet flying on an international route.

The charge, unveiled by Yukihisa Hirano, president of Central Japan
International Airport Co., is lower than the originally planned 695,200 yen,
shown in February.

"This is the maximum reduction we could make to help achieve our business
goals," Hirano said at a news conference.

The charge is lower than a comparable fee of 948,000 yen at Narita airport
outside Tokyo and 825,600 yen at Kansai International Airport near Osaka but
twice as high as fees at South Korea's Incheon airport, which is expected to
become a rival of Centrair airport with each trying to secure the status of
Asia's hub airport.

Central Japan International Airport and the International Air Transport
Association have remained odds during their negotiations to set the landing
fees at Centrair, which will be Japan's third major international gateway
after Narita and Kansai airports.

The IATA had insisted Centrair cut landing fees substantially while
increasing the number of flights to the airport.

But the airport operator has rejected the proposal and set the fees at
655,700 yen, saying the company will stick to its goal of generating a
profit in five years.

Hirano said the airport will begin collecting 200 yen per person from
domestic passengers as airport usage fees in April.

The fee is calculated based on 2.1 billion yen mainly in projected
depreciation costs to departure and arrival terminal lobbies, and 8.2
million in the number of passengers estimated in the first five years of the
airport's opening.

The charge is about twice that charged at Tokyo's Haneda airport.

The airport, which will operate around the clock with a 3,500-meter runway,
is located off Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture. The location is close to the
industrial zone of central Japan, home to Toyota Motor Corp. and its group
companies.


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