First rejected and now approved: The Austrian Ministry of Transport, which calls itself the Ministry of Climate Protection, has waved the new fee schedule for Innsbruck Airport through. This stipulates that aircraft with higher pollutant emissions should be asked to pay more.

The Tyrolean Airport is the first of its kind in Austria to introduce such a pricing model. Due to the legal situation, the operators of public airports must have their fee schedules approved by the BMK. Initially, there was no green light for the Innsbruck push, so a price list very similar to that of 2022 was published. Now the pollutant-dependent prices are coming.

The goal is very simple, because you want to encourage airlines to use modern machines that are considered to have lower emissions for economic reasons. In other words: they want to ban old planes – also known colloquially as “stinkers” – with higher tariffs. In view of the fact that almost exclusively young machines are used today, this is also a bit of a symbolic nature.

Airport director Marco Pernetta confirmed to the Tiroler Tageszeitung that the new fee schedule can be introduced on January 1, 2023 thanks to the approval of the BMK. There is no delay because the airport can meet the target it has set itself to the day. The BMK says: "We consider control measures that lead to lower emissions in the area of ​​air traffic to be a sensible contribution."