The High Point Enterprise reports the Piedmont Triad International Airport Authority has approved fee waivers for airlines that offer or expand service to an airport served by PTIA:
An airline that introduces service between PTIA and a new airport will have its “new service charges” waived for two years after the service starts. An airline that “introduces new competitive service” to an airport now served by PTIA would receive the incentives for one year. The incentives to airlines couldn’t surpass a ceiling of $5 for each “qualifying passenger” an airline boards through its new service, according to the Airport Authority.
Authority chairman Henry Isaacson according to the HPE — says the airport “would recoup the incentives through additional money spent by greater numbers of passengers on parking, meals, beverages, gifts and other items at PTIA.”
That’s the way it works, at least in theory.
