Excessive airport fees begin to impact on all carriers

However, high airport fees could slow the growth of the sector. The ULC issued five licenses to airline companies in 2003, ten in 2004 and has already received another five applications this year. The applicants include foreign companies, but the ULC would not disclose their names. The Office also needs to approve new airport fees by March 1. The problem is that the fee proposals from the Polish Airports (PPL) should have been agreed with carriers, but the latter claim that PPL is asking far too much. "The rates suggested by PPL would hit us seriously. We would have to, among other things, reduce the number of domestic connections," says Marek Grabarek, president of LOT Polish Airlines. (Puls Biznesu, p. 9) T.J.