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New Port flight fee rate for JFK
Big reduction from previous 6 months due to increasing number of passengers and flights
Effective January 1,
2022
Airport terminals and
airlines were informed of
the newest flight or commonly,
discussed as airport
fees for the first six
months of 2022.
In a letter from the Port,
it addressed the stakeholders
as “Freedom Agreement
holders” and the
community was informed
of the reduction of fees for
the first half of 2022 compared
the last six months
of 2021 since the fees
are reviewed and can be
changed every six months.
The letter for the Port
Authority stated:
Dear Freedom Agreement
Holder*,
As discussed at the
December 2, 2021 AAAC
meeting and in accordance
with the provisions of the
Freedom Agreement, this
is to notify all signatory carriers
at John F. Kennedy International
Airport that the
2022 Flight Fee Rate will
be reduced from $12.56 to
$5.98 per 1,000 lbs. maximum
takeoff weight effective
January 1, 2022. Any
questions concerning the
John F. Kennedy International
Airport Flight Fee
and FAR Rates, please
contact (718) 244-3658.
Kaamco reacted to the
fee reduction. According to
Marc Flug, Kaamco President,
“KAAMCO is enthusiastic
about the 2022
Landing fees. The airlines
welcome the financial relief
during the recovery period.
The increase in activity is
promising for the 2022 outlook
at JFK.”
The flight fee has varied
over time, increasing in
some years and decreasing
in other years. These
fluctuations are the result
of changes in the costs,
changes air traffic volume,
and other revenues. Newark
airport has different
fees that in the past may
have included the revenue
received from airport parking
fees. Actual calculations
and detailed considerations
of these fees have
not been publicly revealed
and the negotiations held
close to the vest by all involved
in the negotiations.
PANYNJ derives revenue
from airports such as
concession fees and rentals,
advertising fees, hotel
and rental car fees, cargo
handling permit fees, public
vehicular parking, and
aviation fuel fees but also
pays fees to the cities of
NYC and Newark for the
land lease, on-airport police,
maintenance and operation,
administrative
and clerical costs, and
off-airport indirect overhead
costs. So the matrix
of income and expenses is
complex during the actual
negotiations.
The NY Airlines Liaison
Office (NYALO), with
a Board comprised of airline
executives, is involved
by representing the airlines
during negotiations with
the Port Authority to establish
the fees.
The mission of the 13
year old NYALO, which is
an intermediary between
the airlines at the metro
New York airports, not just
JFK, and the Port Authority
to bring together Kaamco,
interests as the JFK airport
organization representing
the airlines, and the Port
Authority to review and resolve
many matters of the
100 plus airlines at JFK.
At a Kaamco meeting before
the pandemic, NYALO
stated it wants to further facilitate
coordination of all
subgroups at other airport
organizations and Port Authority
in a technical and
financial consulting and
representative manner.
NYALO currently provides
a six-month financial report
with Port Authority airline
fees and charges.
*“Freedom Agreement”
is the name which was
given to the 2004 JFK and
LGA flight fee agreement
which was negotiated between
the airline community
and the Port right
around the time the Port
agreed with NYC to extend
its leases for both airports.
“Freedom” honors 9/11 in
particular those colleagues
from the Port who lost their
lives in the attacks.
Great escapes
Airports used to escape capture
Arrests are regularly made at the
area airports since may crooks like to
use the airlines as a get-a-away from
capture and prosecution.
Recently a man was arrested for allegedly
posing as a literary agent and
using other’s literary works to enrich
himself.
This is another form of theft of intellectual
property, something commonly
found at JFK Airport Customs
Border Protection IP squad. Each
heat billions of counterfeit goods are
seized with in violation of intellectual
property since companies like Nike,
Apple and major brands have IP rights
and no one can illegally copy or use.
The CBP regularly identifies fakes and
counterfeits goods.
In this case, the FBI arrested Filippo
Bernardini, a 29-year-old Italian employee
of major publisher Simon &
Schuster.
He is accused of impersonating literary
agents and publishers over email
to steal unpublished works from writers
and their representatives.
The alleged scam had been known
in literary circles for around five years
with Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan
and Sally Rooney among the novelists
reportedly targeted.
Bernardini was arraigned in court
in Manhattan on Thursday after being
arrested by agents at JFK airport the
day before.
He has been charged with committing
wire fraud and identity theft between
2016 and 2021, crimes punishable
by 22 years in prison.
“Filippo Bernardini allegedly impersonated
publishing industry individuals
in order to have authors, including
a Pulitzer prize winner, send him prepublication
manuscripts for his own
benefit,” said US prosecutor Damian
Williams.
“This real-life storyline now reads
as a cautionary tale, with the plot twist
of Bernardini facing federal criminal
charges for his misdeeds,” he added in
a statement.
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