easyJet lose legal challenge of Gatwick charges
15.12.09
easyJet has lost a bid to have a court review of a price increase at Gatwick Airport set by the aviation regulator. The Court of Appeal in London upheld a June ruling by a lower court that the Civil Aviation Authority did not need to reconsider its pricing policy.
The budget airline claimed the CAA raised the per-passenger fee the airport could charge airlines last year following negotiations between the regulator and the then Gatwick owner BAA that excluded airlines. A quarter of the passengers at Gatwick fly easyJet, and the company said that it is being overcharged by about £46 million a year. However, Lord Justice John Dyson said in his ruling: ‘I cannot accept that the airlines in general (or EasyJet in particular) have been unfairly treated’.
easyJet said in an emailed statement that the judgment means passengers will ‘continue to be forced to pay up to 50 percent more in airport charges over the coming years - without a new terminal or runway being constructed. easyJet now looks forward to putting this behind it and working with the new owners of Gatwick, to ensure that the mistakes of the past are not repeated.'
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