{"id":2696,"date":"2010-10-04T09:01:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T13:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2010-10-04T09:01:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T13:01:52","slug":"bahamas-raising-airport-fees-while-others-reduce-theirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/bahamas-raising-airport-fees-while-others-reduce-theirs","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Raising Airport Fees While Others Reduce Theirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The GTAA has approved reductions to the connecting Airport  Improvement Fee (AIF) and cargo aircraft landing fees for 2011.  Additionally, aeronautical fees for passenger aircraft have been held in  line with 2010 levels. These changes are being made to enhance Toronto  Pearson\u2019s competitive position.<\/p>\n<p>The Airport Improvement Fee for passengers connecting through Toronto  Pearson will decrease from $8 to $4, effective January 1, 2011. This is  believed to be the first decrease to an AIF in Canada. Increased  connecting traffic will allow Toronto Pearson to grow as a global hub,  offering more choice to passengers as they move around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The landing fees for cargo aircraft will be reduced by 4.3 per cent  on January 1, 2011, which is the third reduction since January of 2010.  Cargo fee reductions are being introduced to encourage growth and to  support local businesses that depend on air cargo delivery.<\/p>\n<p>This contrasts sharply with The Bahamas, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/nad-shooting-itself-in-foot-with-airline-fee-increases-1883.html\">fees are set to rise sharply<\/a> to help the government pay for improvements to the dilapidated airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Bahamas gets set to increase their airport fees, other airports are lowering, and lowering, their fees to remain competitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42,33],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-airlines","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}