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Speaker 1: The ComCom says it won't investigate sky high airport costs

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Speaker 1: despite pressure from airlines. Instead, it'll tighten rules next year

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Speaker 1: to better monitor big airport projects in New Zealand, as

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Speaker 1: you know, has publicly had beef about this. They say

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Speaker 1: fees have more than doubled in two years in Auckland,

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Speaker 1: could cost them half a billion bucks by twenty thirty two.

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Speaker 1: Billy Moore is New Zealand Airport's Association Chief executive. Billy

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Speaker 1: good morning, good morning. So you're not you're not off

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Speaker 1: scot free here the airports. So there is going to

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Speaker 1: be a bit more monitoring, a couple of changes made,

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Speaker 1: but no investigation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. It's not a it's a constructive outcome

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Speaker 2: to work on the information disclosure of regime. But you

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Speaker 2: know it is all about balance in the system here

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand has made that claim as you have said.

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Speaker 2: But while they say they might pay half a billion

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Speaker 2: dollars in fees, look at New Zealand, Auckland is their

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Speaker 2: biggest hubs. Are also are protected to make from that

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Speaker 2: six point five billion dollars by twenty thirty two. So

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Speaker 2: while it might be one of their biggest costs that

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Speaker 2: they're managing. It's also one of the places where they

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Speaker 2: make the most money.

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Speaker 1: Why are you charging so much? Is it just because

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Speaker 1: you're doing the upgrades and once that's done things we

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Speaker 1: back to normal or what.

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Speaker 2: Auckland Airport's fees are about where most international airport fees sits.

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Speaker 2: They're not particularly high. They've been up maybe a dollar

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Speaker 2: fifty a year over the past few years, and some

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Speaker 2: of it is about stabilizing fees after them being extremely

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Speaker 2: low for about at least a decade.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Why would they low for a decade?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's taken a long time for Aucland Airport to

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Speaker 2: get its infrastructure build progressing, and part of the reasons

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Speaker 2: for that has been resistance from the airlines over that time,

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Speaker 2: trying to delay the build and reduce it, which means

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Speaker 2: that the costs now will be a little bit steeper

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Speaker 2: than they otherwise would have been a progress I've been

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Speaker 2: made earlier.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate your time, Billy Billy Moore, New Zealand Reports are

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Speaker 1: so Siation Chief Executive.

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