Passengers may soon be required to pay airport use fees directly, one more step in the check-in process. This also will drive home what few notice: the fee is $14.90 for domestic flights and $18.34 for international travel. How these odd sums are set and why payment is in dollars, not pesos, has yet to be explained. At the moment, airlines collect these fees when selling tickets, but they have not been passing on what they collect to airport management. Aeroméxico is said to owe 130 million pesos. Financially troubled and grounded Aviacsa, which planned to return to the skies earlier this month, was told that first it must pay the 90 million pesos it collected in fees but never passed on to the Mexico City airport.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting from Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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