All airport authorities through out the world have imposed airport tax. AirAsia (AA) was the only airline with the ability to owe airport tax and other charges to the tune of over RM132 million. When yours truly brought up the issue in Parliament a few years ago, AA finally settled it with a discount of RM25 million as “incentive” by the then Minister of Transport, in HERE.
Yours truly has also brought up the issue of the airport taxes paid by no-show (untraveled) passengers, which was not refunded and kept by AA. It must be noted that no-show (untraveled) passengers need not pay airport tax as they have not used the airport facilities.
On 23-11-2011 the Minister of Transport has confirmed that from 2002 to August 2011 AirAsia had kept airport tax of no-show (untraveled) passengers totaling RM6,432,697.00 and AirAsia X RM498,000 from November 2007 until November 2011.
