BERLIN: Germany will reduce its air traffic management fees by 18 percent this year, a boost for airlines, the state-owned DFS air traffic control authority said on Wednesday.
The reduced fees for take-offs, landings and overflights mean that airlines will, for example, pay 641.05 euros to fly an A320 from Hamburg to Munich, in comparison with 768.22 euros last year.
"This brings some relief to airlines against a tough economic backdrop for international aviation," Klaus-Dieter Scheurle, CEO of the DFS said.
The DFS said it was able to reduce the fees by such an amount because the government is taking on more of the costs directly for items such as weather services that the DFS does not provide itself and which were previously included in air traffic control fees.
The DFS has around 2,000 air traffic controllers which direct up to 10,000 flights a day in German airspace.
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