As reported on ABC, this sounds rather inequitable and unjustly favours operators of large heavy aircraft.
Virgin upset over proposed fee changes
The owners of Sydney Airport and airline Virgin Blue are once again at odds, this time over proposed fee changes.
The airline has referred the matter to the National Competition Council alleging that the new fee structure is unjust and anti-competitive.
Virgin Blue says from July 1 the owners of Sydney Airport plan to charge a landing fee per passenger rather than by aircraft weight, which the airline says will cost it millions of dollars more per year.
Virgin Blue owner Sir Richard Branson says relations between it and Sydney airport are once again strained.
"They're just actually attempting to do something where they're going to change things around, so we're going to get stung quite badly again and we are very much hoping that we can get the regulator to regulate the airport," he said.
