Changi Airport offers more rebates, incentives for airlines

Changi Airport Group (CAG) on Wednesday (Sep 3) provided additional details of the rebates and incentives offered to airlines under its Growth and Assistance Incentive (GAIN) programme, which was announced in June.

It will be offering landing fee rebates for long-haul flights and incentives for airlines to grow transfer traffic through Changi Airport, and these measures would amount to as much as S$50 million over the next 19 months for airlines operating at the Airport, said CAG in its press release.

Specifically, it will offer a 50 per cent rebate on landing fees for all non-stop long-haul passenger flights from Sep 1, 2014 to Mar 31, 2016.

CAG is also launching its Gateway Incentive next month, in which all airlines at Changi Airport will receive a S$10 incentive for every incremental departing transit or transfer passenger handled. The 18-month scheme is effective from Oct 1 this year, and will also include passengers carried by foreign airlines interlining at the airport, it said.

"The new incentives are targeted at long-haul flights and transfer traffic, two important segments of our air traffic. Long-haul services are a key part of Changi Airport’s global connectivity. CAG recognises that airlines commit significant investment into their long haul flights, hence CAG will be offering landing rebates on these flights to help share airlines’ costs, said Mr Lim Ching Kiat, CAG's Senior Vice President for Market Development.

"Transfer traffic is another important component of our air traffic. Therefore, we will be rolling out incentives to reward our airline partners for growing transfer traffic. This is on top of the extension of our popular Changi Transit Programme which offers attractive vouchers to passengers using Changi as their transfer point.”

CAG had announced in June that it is offering all airlines operating at Changi Airport across-the-board rebates of 50 per cent aircraft parking fees and 15 per cent on aerobridge fees between Jul 1, 2014 and Jun 30, 2015 under its GAIN programme.

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