AIRPORT and air traffic management services can and must reduce their charges, rents and other burden which they impose on the airlines, regardless of market fluctuations, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) said.
AAPA director-general Richard Stirland, who made the call, said as the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) had a devastating effect on the bottom lines of airlines in the region, other components of the air transport industry should share the financial consequences of the epidemic.