Pittsburgh International Airport will not charge landing fees based on flight times and traffic volumes, officials have said.
The airport does not experience the same level of congestion as larger airports so will not implement the policy laid out last week by Transportation Secretary Mary Peters.
This means that passengers will not have to pay more to land at the airport, but could face higher ticket prices when taking flights to destinations where the policy is in operation, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Bradley D Penrod, Executive Director of the Allegheny County Airport Authority, told the newspaper that there are no plans to introduce the policy as there is “virtually no congestion”.
However, he suggested that the new rules could encourage more passengers – and airlines – to travel to Pittsburgh as a cheaper alternative to other airports.
“We become very friendly from a cost perspective and an efficiency perspective to accommodate those airplanes,” he commented.
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