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Old 6th Jan 2019, 22:18
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Originally Posted by SWBKCB
I'd like to see the legal advice on reducing APD at just one airport (which happened to be owned by the same body setting the tax level...). Don't follow the fairness point - isn't the general tax payer picking up the bill either way?
Argubaly yes but only if passengers travel from the airport whereas at the minute they pay whether passengers travel or not, travelling passengers generate other income through shops and car parks.

with regards treating EDI/GLA differently aren’t they doing that by subsidising PIK to stay open when commercially not viable?

If in the very very unlikely event that EDI & GLA we’re closed at short notice how many diverts could PIK handle, I suspect many would divert to NCL or MAN ahead of PIK.

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