UK airports require urgent business rates relief following traffic collapse
The AOA requests a year-long relief from business rates for all airports in England and Wales, to come into effect as soon as practical.
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Money can also be made through many other aspects within an airport’s operation, for example, car parking fees, retail concessions, real estate and advertising.
Regarding non-aeronautical revenues, a large part of course lies with the duty-free shops and restaurants available in a terminal. It is recognised within the industry that a happy passenger is more likely to be a spending passenger, and so it can be argued that an airport’s revenue strongly relies on securing a high-quality passenger experience.
The AOA requests a year-long relief from business rates for all airports in England and Wales, to come into effect as soon as practical.
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Veovo will implement its revenue management system across all of Swedavia's airport network, such as Stockholm Arlanda Airport.
ACI Europe data has outlined that only 4.3 million passengers travelled through the vast network of European airports during May 2020.
By the end of March 2020, passenger traffic experienced a global decline of almost 60 per cent as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
After reaching the lowest recorded rate since records began in 1990 during April 2020, IATA data has outlined the beginning of an increase in passenger demand.
The decline has been attributed to insufficient capacity to meet demand following the loss of belly cargo operations on passenger aircraft.