Australia's major and regional airports say Qantas, Virgin and Regional Express owe them at least $17 million in unpaid landing fees and other charges | pwhatch
Australia's major and regional airports say Qantas, Virgin and Regional Express owe them at least $17 million in unpaid landing fees and other charges as they delay paying bills to preserve cash while trying to ride out the COVID-19 crisis.
Mr Goodwin said that while airlines had received significant financial help from the government through support packages worth around $1.3 billion, airport's per-passenger landing fees and security fees were going unpaid."When that assistance is not flowing through the food chain, that’s where we’ve got a big issue," he said.
Australia's major airlines have started returning planes to the sky over the past month as state borders reopen, although theA Qantas spokesman said it was now up to date with payments to airports "in all material respects", and fully up to date with all regional airports. However the country's largest airline continues to negotiate with some of the major airports about the payment of aeronautical fees.
A Regional Express spokeswoman said that the airline had paid "every single airport every amount owing to them". However, security charges may not be paid if the airport has been "delinquent in furnishing the required data for audit" as required by the government.
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