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Airport levy row settled
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• The row between the British Airports Authority and bus and coach operators at Gatwick and Heathrow airports has been settled, with the BAA backing down from its initial demands for charge increases to be introduced in one stage.
The Bus and Coach Council is "satisfied" with the agreement, which phases in charges from 1 January 1990, to be scaled up over three years. "It wasn't the question of putting up the charges that we objected to, but the proposed levels of new charges which the BAA wanted to introduce in the middle of the business year," says the BCC's David Watson.
The council alerted the Office of Fair Trading and the Civil Aviation Authority to the proposals.
Express services will rise from 76p per movement to £1.05 per movement over the three years at Heathrow, an from £1.05 to 21.46 per mov ment at Gatwick. An annual rate for Gatwick local servici will rise from £316.50 to £44 Andrew Braddock is chairman of the BCC airport user group and director and genet manager of The Bee Line, which runs a service to Heat row for British Rail. He says the settlement is "as reasonable as can be expected. Th( BAA's initial proposals were just not acceptable; our charges would have risen fro 252 a year for a licence to operate in Heathrow to abou 220,000."