Price caps stay at Stansted Airport

Price caps will remain in place at Stansted Airport, the Department for Transport has decided.

The move to retain the controls on charges comes after a report from the Civil Aviation Authority last summer, which recommended that the system should be scrapped.

The decision was welcomed by low-cost carriers whose margins could have been squeezed should a rise in charges have been enacted.

Andew Barker, planning director at EasyJet, said: "Ruth Kelly and the Department for Transport officials should be congratulated for protecting air travellers from BAA ripping-off airlines at Stansted.

He added: "They recognise that, without regulation, customers would be at the mercy of a highly-indebted infrastructure owner seeking short-term profit maximisation at the expense of air traveller."

However, the DoT did allow the cap on charges to be lifted at Manchester Airport - on the grounds that this will allow the airport to develop without the cost falling excessively on passengers.

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