Nov 14, 2019 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s government has decided to increase overflying charges after 38 years, taking into account the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) policies for the determination of air navigation charges.

In exchange for providing navigation aids to aircraft overflying their territories and landing at their airports, countries impose overflying navigation fees.

Charges are mainly for the recovery of costs for the provision of air navigation facility and services and in Sri Lanka, the regulation is finalized under the present Civil Aviation Act no 14 of 2010 and its section 117 (2) ( r).

Section 117 has vested power on the Minister of Civil Aviation to make regulations by taking into consideration the interest of the national economy.

Current charges have been decided under section 24 and section (3) (2) (pp) of the Air Navigation Act and the Gazette number 147/12 of 03 July 1981.

Ministry of Civil Aviation said the air navigation facility and its quality have been upgraded after 1981 as follows.

• Secondary Surveillance Radar Cover
• Performance-Based Air Navigation
• Automatic Dependence Surveillance-Contract (ADS-C)
• Automatic Dependence Surveillance-Broad Cast (ADS-B)
• Controller Pilot Data Link Communication (CPDC) System
• State-of-the-art ATM Integrated system
• Aero-Mobile Communication Console System

Newly calculated overflying charges will increase National Revenue as follows

As per Air Craft Type:

Air Craft Type	Present Charges US$	Proposed Charge	Increases of  revenue
A 320	100	169	69%
B 763	150	265	76%
A 330	200	332	66%
B 777	250	360	44%
B 747	250	384	53.6%
A 380	250	464	85.6%

Daily/Monthly/Annually Collection

Revenue in US$
	Present Collection US$	Proposed Collection US$	Increases In US$	Increase to GDP in %
Daily Revenue	21,800	34,347	12547	57%
Monthly Revenue	654000	1030410	376410	57%
Annual Revenue	7848000	12364920	4516920	57%
Revenue in Rupees
	Present Collection Rs.	Proposed Collection Rs.	Increases In Rs.	Increase to GDP in %
Daily Revenue	3,924,000.00	6,182,460.00	2,258,460.00	57%
Monthly Revenue	117,720,000.00	185,473,800.00	67,753,800.00	57%
Annual Revenue	1,412,640,000.00	2,225,685,600.00	813,045,600.00	57%