Airport Fees Finally Land

The Gibraltar Government have finally(!) announced the introduction of revised landing fees at Gibraltar Airport.

The fees, historically collected by the MoD will, following the 2007 agreement between the MoD and GoG, be collected AND set by the Government.

While Gibraltar will always have higher fees than bargain basement airports there was universal consensus that fees needed to come down.

The issue of fees was of course the cover used by Monarch for the cancellation of the Manchester route. Hopefully this will now be reinstated, as the route had a high yield and many would doubt whether even monarch expected to cancel it in their game of chicken over the fees.

The Governments press release is surprisingly light on the actual detail, given it is delayed (was originally expected before Christmas). However they have at least picked a sensible introduction date of the 30th March aviation season change.