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Price caps stay at Stansted Airport

15/01/2008

Price caps will remain in place at Stansted Airport, the Department for Transport has decided.

The move to retain the controls on charges comes after a report from the Civil Aviation Authority last summer, which recommended that the system should be scrapped.

The decision was welcomed by low-cost carriers whose margins could have been squeezed should a rise in charges have been enacted.

Andew Barker, planning director at EasyJet, said: "Ruth Kelly and the Department for Transport officials should be congratulated for protecting air travellers from BAA ripping-off airlines at Stansted.

He added: "They recognise that, without regulation, customers would be at the mercy of a highly-indebted infrastructure owner seeking short-term profit maximisation at the expense of air traveller."

However, the DoT did allow the cap on charges to be lifted at Manchester Airport - on the grounds that this will allow the airport to develop without the cost falling excessively on passengers.

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