In the daily process of purchasing air tickets, in addition to the price of the air tickets themselves, it is often necessary to pay an additional civil aviation development fund. Friends who bought tickets recently may find that there is a fuel surcharge in addition to the Civil Aviation Development Fund. In fact, if you are a friend who often flies, you may find that the fees we pay when buying air tickets are often different. 10 years ago, flying often required an airport construction fee, but now flying requires a civil aviation development fund. Sometimes there are fuel surcharges, sometimes there are none, and the amount is different. So what is the basis of these charging items? As an ordinary traveler, how can we figure out this muddled account? Can I buy a cheap and affordable air ticket?

To sort out these problems, we must look for answers from the government's document regulations. The author consulted a large number of documents from the Internet and finally sorted out the ins and outs of these charging items.

Civil aviation development fund (airport construction fee)

The so-called airport construction fee and the civil aviation development fund are actually the same charging item. At the beginning of the development of civil aviation in China, there were not many domestic airports. The state wants to raise funds to build new airports in various places, so it charges airport construction fees to every passenger who flies. The money finally entered the national treasury and was controlled by the state to promote the development of the civil aviation industry.

At present, the basis for levying civil aviation development funds is the Interim Measures for the Administration of the Collection and Use of Civil Aviation Development Funds issued by the Ministry of Finance on 20 12. It is clear in this document that the civil aviation development fund is formed by the merger of the original civil aviation airport management and construction fees and the original civil aviation infrastructure construction fund, which is collected by the airlines or ticket agents who sell tickets on their behalf, and the income is turned over to the central treasury, which is included in the government fund budget and used for special purposes. The document stipulates that passengers on domestic flights pay 50 yuan every time; Passengers leaving the country by international and regional flights will pay 90 yuan (including 20 yuan, the tourism development fund) every time. However, the civil aviation development fund can be exempted in the following three situations: (1) passengers leaving the country on international and regional flights with diplomatic passports; (2) Children under 12 (inclusive); (3) Passengers on domestic regional flights.

bunker surcharge

If the logic of levying the civil aviation development fund is well understood, then the fuel surcharge often puzzles us, because there is no law to follow in its collection. Sometimes it is collected, sometimes it is not collected, sometimes it is collected more, and sometimes it is collected less. It feels like the unreasonable charges of airlines, and the passengers are lambs to be slaughtered.

To clarify the logic of fuel surcharge collection, the first thing to grasp is that jet fuel price is a very important factor in airline operating costs, which often accounts for more than 30% of the total operating costs of airlines, so the fluctuation of oil price has a great impact on the operating conditions of airlines.

On June165438+1October 1 1 day, 2009, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Civil Aviation Administration issued the Notice on Establishing the Linkage Mechanism of Passenger Transport Fuel Surcharge and Aviation Kerosene Price on Civil Aviation Domestic Routes, which stipulated that in order to rationally divert domestic aviation,