This consultation contains the proposed amendments to the CAA Schemes of Charges within the documents shown below, which are planned to be effective as from 1 April 2018.
As a body that is directly funded by charges paid by those we regulate, we fully understand the difficulties the industry continues to face. This is one of our primary considerations when we set our charges.
Over the past eight years, the increase in our charges was only 5.3% while in the same period UK CPI inflation was 18.4%. This is because we have worked hard to reduce our operating costs over the same period.
However, we continue to face significant financial pressures, with increases in our cost base as well as the need to make crucial investment in modernising our systems. Our two main work streams, Performance Based Regulation and the Transformation Programme, have and will continue to deliver efficiencies and better customer service. As such, we are committed to controlling the costs of making these improvements.
Given these current cost pressures, we propose that there should be an increase of 2.6% across all Charges Schemes in 2018/19, which is lower than the current CPI rate of inflation (October 2018 CPI: 3.0%).
In addition, we are proposing specific charges to cover our costs in the three areas where we are undertaking new activities - cyber security, unmanned aircraft systems and markets and competition work. There are a number of further proposed structural changes detailed in chapter 4 of the
main consultation document.
Links to consultation documents (PDF):
How to respond to this consultation
Please send us your comments online using the link below (preferred method). Alternatively please email
charges@caa.co.uk.
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