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18 FLIGHT International, 4 July 1963 The Big Gap The world is spending nearly £900m a year on air ports and facilities; the airlines, through I ATA, contribute £78m; the taxpayer pays most of the rest By G. M. MARCHAULT "Flight International" photograph RATHER over two years ago—on April 13, 1961—this journal published a set of tables showing the various landing, light ing, navigation and fuel charges, together with passenger fees and taxes, levied at the principal airports of 42 countries selec ted as being fairly representative of the world at large. Brought up to date in the following pages, these tables exhibit some significant trends. Two of the countries which appeared in the original list, Chile and Mexico, have been dropped because of the sheer impossibility of calculating the full charges and ASECNA and Ghana have been substituted in their places. ASECNA represents a completely new concept in that it is an agency set up by the governments of almost all the ex-French African colonies, with Metropolitan France playing a leading role in the organization. The agency provides the air traffic services throughout the territories and levies navi gation charges based on types of aircraft used and the distance they fly through Flight Information Regions under ASECNA control. These charges are additional to any landing fee paid. Ghana, on the other hand, can be considered in this context as reasonably representative of the other group of newly emergent independent African States. The two entries for the United States (Chicago and New York International) are each given in two versions. One takes account only of the known or published charges at each airport and does not include fuel taxes at New York, since these are either not charged or are refunded to foreign airlines which are 100 per cent Government owned; at Chicago fuel taxes are not refunded. The second version shows what American receipts look like after the New York fuel taxes and the universal 5 per cent transportation tax have been included. Incidentally, until quite recently, the rate of tax was 10 per cent. In the remarks column of the tables percentages are quoted AIRPORT, NAVIGATION, PASSENGER AND FUEL CHARGES AND TAXES (As at June 21, 1963) State or Airfield AFGHANISTAN ASECNA (Republic of Niger used as a typical example) AUSTRALIA BELGIUM (Brussels) Paid by airlines Landing: by weight brackets Landing: by weight brackets National ... Navigation charge: by weight, distance flown through ASECNA areas and whether pressurized or not ... International Lighting (fixed fee) Navigation charge Aircraft from, or to, abroad assessed by weight and charged on a rising scale multiplied By a "flight faeesr" accord ing to route. To or from overseas — FF 8 Melbourne to Darwin ^ FF 11 Landing: flat rate per tonne Lighting: flat rate per tonne per land ing or take-off Paid by passengers Fr300 CFA if bound for outside Niger (but within Africa) Fr750 CFA passenger charge if going outside Africa DC-3 £ s d 2 13 0 1 10 4 4 4 3 5 14 7 12 5 0 17 19 7 5 13 8 2 3 9 7 0 5 14 17 10 30 12 0 45 9 10 13 13 1 6 0 10 4 118 10 12 6 Viscount 800 £ s d 4 10 0 9 1 5 13 4 10 22 6 3 32 16 0 55 2 3 14 9 0 2 3 9 28 1 0 44 13 9 82 0 0 126 13 9 39 9 II 13 9 5 10 7 4 23 16 9 Comet 4 t s d 4 10 0 47 II 8 13 4 10 60 16 6 34 5 0 95 1 6 40 1 8 2 3 9 28 1 0 70 6 5 83 2 0 153 8 5 115 II 7 33 9 0 25 14 6 59 3 6 Boeing 707-320 t s d 9 0 0 123 14 0 13 4 10 136 18 10 74 6 0 211 4 10 133 16 0 2 3 9 28 1 0 164 0 9 180 8 0 344 8 9 227 7 2 65 10 0 50 6 10 115 16 10 Date of feet, re marks and % change in Boeing feet tinea 1959 I960 -64% July 1, 1963. This organization covers almost all ex-French African colonies (up to 1,000km) maximum yield doubled since May 62 (over 2,000km) maximum yield +24% since May 1962 1962 (Dee). Example used: Melbourne to Parwin bound for Singapore + 102% 1954 double rate Data assumed for the four typical types of aircraft are as follows: Gross weight, DC-3, 27,0001b; Viscount, 63,0001b; Comet 4, 158,0001b; Boeing 707-320, 311,0001b. Passengers, 28; 75; 76; 165. Cargo, DC-3, negligible; 250kg; 500kg; 2.000kg. Fuel uplift, DC-3, 500 Imp gal; Viscount, 1,100 gal; Comet 4, 6,000 gal; Boeing, 14,000 gal. Power, 2,400 h.p.: 8,000 h.p.; 42,0001b; 52,0001b. These figures apply to all the tables.
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