IATA WANTS REVIEW OF AUSTRALIAN PASSENGER MOVEMENT CHARGE

SYDNEY – The International Air Transport AssocIation (IATA) has called on the Australian Government to reconsider the economic damage being done by the Passenger Movement Charge (PMC), which is currently AUD55 per passenger. Tont Yler, Director-General and CEO of IATA, told an Aviation Press Club luncheon in Sydney that the PMC was originally designed to fund Australia’s border agencies, including customs and border protection, quarantine and immigration, but at $55 per passenger it exceeds the cost of funding these agencies.  It is estimated that about AUD800 million will be collected in the 2012-2013 fiscal year.