ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal has revised its 2024 tariff proposal for its national airports. It is now proposing an average increase of 14.55% in global terms, including adjustments to fees not charged in previous years, according to information on the manager’s website.
According to the proposal, “the absolute variation of the set of regulated rates in ANA, considering the adjustments made, translates, in annual terms, into an average increase of 14.55%”, which, according to the company, represents an additional 1.60 euros in the ANA network.
The information was advanced today by Jornal de Negócios.
By airport, the change is higher in Lisbon, with 16.98% (+2.29 euros), with Porto increasing 11.92% (+0.92 euros), Faro rising 11.35% (+0.88 euros) and Beja 8.77% (+17.71 euros). In the Azores, the proposal foresees an increase of 7.47% (+0.57 euros) and in Madeira of 7.92% (+0.98 euros).
ANA also details that, considering only the variation in the set of regulated rates, without adjustments due to previous years, this translates, in annual terms, into an average increase of 10.60%, which represents an additional 1.17 euros in the ANA network. Thus, Lisbon grows by 12.45% (+€1.68), the Azores by 7.47% (+€0.57), Madeira by 7.92% (€0.98), Porto by 7.39% (+€0.57), Faro by 7.41% (+€0.58) and Beja by 8.77% (€17.71).
The manager also said that this proposal will allow revenue deviations calculated in 2022 at the airports of Lisbon, Porto, and Faro to recover through an adjustment of regulated rates.
Thus, in the Lisbon group (Lisbon, Beja, Ponta Delgada, Santa Maria, Horta, Flores, Madeira, and Porto Santo) the amount to be charged is 18,644,401 euros, in Porto 4,778,850 euros, and in Faro 2,609,483 euros, according to the proposal.
ANA justified this downward revision of the initial proposal with inflation, reported to August, in which there was an update of the rate “to 8.8%, instead of the 9.7% initially referred to in the consultation process, so that ANA, maintaining all the modelling previously provided for and following the methodology defined in Annex 12 of the concession contract, recalculated the maximum average regulated revenue for each of the airports in the Lisbon group’s concession network.”
In a response sent to Lusa, an official source from ANA stressed that “the proposed fee evolutions (excluding the adjustments of fees from previous years) remain below one euro at all airports, with the exception of Lisbon, which is less than two euros.”
It also reiterated that this increase, which was lower than that presented in the first proposal, would not jeopardise the competitiveness of airports.
The first proposal sparked protests from airlines, which pay the fees, with Ryanair threatening to close its base in Madeira.
The National Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC), has not yet commented on this year’s proposal, already considered that the one presented in 2023 was too high, and suspended the process until the concessionaire changed the values.
Samantha Gannon
info at madeira-weekly.com
