Are you getting enough? Concerns about airport revenues

Ron Messer
Additional contact information
Ron Messer: School of Business at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada

Journal of Airport Management, 2013, vol. 7, issue 4, 332-342

Abstract: Many airports rely on data received from external sources to bill aeronautical charges for the use of their facilities. Billings apply to landing and terminal fees, which are intended to recover the costs associated with constructing and operating airport infrastructure, including runway systems and terminal buildings. This paper addresses the question of whether airports are ‘getting enough’ in fees for the use of their facilities. By independently observing and recording aircraft landings at a major North American airport and tracing these movements through the airport's billing system, it was observed that the data provided by outside parties to charge for the use of facilities were both incomplete and inaccurate. This means that not all revenues were collected because they were either not billed or incorrectly billed. The results of this investigation suggest that a case can be made for an airport acquiring its own system for capturing and recording aircraft movements. This will ensure correct billings for the use of airport runways and terminal buildings.

Keywords: aeronautical revenues; landing fees; terminal charges; billing systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M1 M10 R4 R40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://hstalks.com/article/4454/download/ (application/pdf)
https://hstalks.com/article/4454/ (text/html)
Requires a paid subscription for full access.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aza:jam000:y:2013:v:7:i:4:p:332-342

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Airport Management from Henry Stewart Publications
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Henry Stewart Talks ().