New Delhi,
April 30:
Flying out of
Mumbai will become more expensive from Tuesday.
The Directorate
General of Civil Aviation has allowed Mumbai airport to levy a development fee
of Rs 100 on every departing domestic passenger and Rs 600 on every passenger
flying abroad from May 1. The DGCA has allowed Mumbai International Airport Ltd
to levy the development fee for 23 months up to March 2014.
MIAL may exempt
some passengers from the levy of the development fee including children below
the age of two, holders of diplomatic passports, airline crew on duty including
sky marshals and persons travelling on official duty from the Indian armed
forces.
The Central
Government had approved the levy of a development fee of Rs 100 from every
passenger departing on a domestic flight and Rs 600 on a passenger taking an
international flight for 48 months from April 2009.
The fee was
approved on an ad-hoc basis to bridge a funding gap of Rs 1,543 crore in the
project.
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