"Minimizing airport charges will certainly help us reduce losses if not incur profits, " said an official at state-owned carrier Air India Ltd.
On September 28th, the Civil Aviation Authority, the airports' regulator, is to recommend a new method of price regulation, which will end the cross-subsidy of airport charges.
The carrier had previously planned an offering for the middle of last year but delayed it after high fuel costs and airport charges caused it to abandon loss-making flights to London, Paris and two Indian cities in March 2012.
Europe's economic crisis has meant some governments have increased airport operating charges.
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Arun Mishra, India's director general of civil aviation, said on Tuesday that the owners of the 17 jets can take back their planes so long as they pay accrued airport parking charges.
You may face charges from the hotel or airport providing internet service, or from the local cellular company if you roam on its data network -- as most non-residents must.
Heathrow wants regulators to allow it to increase charges for airlines to use the airport, between 2014 and 2019.
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He was released to airline personnel and charges are pending, according to the airport police report.
Airport and federal law-enforcement officials said no criminal charges would be filed.
Airport-related costs, such as landing fees and security charges, make up around another 10%.
At present, the way Heathrow calculates its landing charges takes into account the profits earned from all the airport's businesses, including retailing.
The admitted secret agents were eventually flown to Austria, where, in a scene reminiscent of a Cold War spy drama, they were swapped on a Vienna airport tarmac for four men who had been imprisoned in Russia, most on charges of spying for the West.
He said the CAA issued its ruling on the charges Heathrow could impose on airlines for that period, on the basis of the west London airport handling 78m passengers a year by 2013, more than 8m out.
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