Airport taxes to rise by up to 100% in June
Airport taxes to rise by up to 100% in June
JAKARTA (JP): The country's two major state-owned airport
operators announced on Monday a plan to increase airport taxes
imposed on passengers flying overseas by 50 percent to 100
percent in June.
PT Angkasa Pura I and PT Angkasa Pura II, which operate 23
airports nationwide, said the hike would be needed to offset an
increase in their operating costs over the past two years.
"The new airport tax will come into effect on June 1. It was
approved by Minister of Communications Agum Gumelar on April 23,"
Angkasa Pura I public relations manager Gatot Sugiantoroat
revealed at a media conference.
Gatot said that the airport tax increase would be the first
since the economic crisis hit the country in late 1997. "The
airport tax hike is a must if we want to improve our services for
passengers," Gatot said.
The airport tax for local flights will not be increased.
The airport tax for passengers traveling overseas through the
Soekarno-Hatta and Ngurah Rai airports will be increased by 50
percent to Rp 75,000 (US$6.50) from Rp 50,000 ($4.30), Gatot
said.
Except for Kijang airport in Tanjung Pinang, the airport tax
in the two companies' other airports would be increased by 100
percent to Rp 60,000 ($5.2) from Rp 30,000 ($2.6), he said.
Those airports include Halim Perdana Kusuma airport (Jakarta),
Polonia airport (Medan), Sultan Iskandar Muda airport (Banda
Aceh), Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II airport (Palembang), Sultan
Syarif Kasim airport (Pekanbaru), Tabing airport (Padang), Husein
Sastranegara airport (Bandung), Juanda airport (Surabaya),
Hasanuddin airport (Makassar), Sepinggan airport (Balikpapan),
Frans Kaisiepo airport (Bika), Sam Ratulangi airport (Manado),
Adi Sucipto airport (Yogyakarta), Adi Sumarmo airport (Solo),
Selaparang airport (Mataram) and Pattimura airport (Ambon).
In El Tari airport, Kupang, the airport tax will be raised to
Rp 40,000 from the previous level of Rp 20,000.
Meanwhile, at Kijang airport the tax will only be increased by
33 percent, to Rp 40,000 from Rp 30,000, due to its low level of
international air traffic, Gatot said.
Angkasa Pura II received Rp 152.5 billion in airport taxes
last year, while Angkasa Pura I raised Rp 45.36 billion. (03)