Air Commodore Harveyasked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what action he has taken to implement his recent undertaking that landing charges at airports would shortly be increased.
§ Mr. Watkinson:In the course of a debate on 18th March I said that landing charges would have to be considerably increased as soon as discussions were completed with interested parties.
Following these discussions I shall, with effect from 1st June, introduce revised scales of landing fees which are estimated to yield an additional £500,000 for a full year. This is an increase of 37 per cent. overall and is distributed among the carriers broadly according to what the traffic can reasonably be expected to bear. The new scales will be promulgated this week through the normal means of a Notice to Airmen.
At the same time, increases will be introduced in the much smaller fields of charges for aircraft housing and parking.