FAS has achieved the cancellation of passenger check-in fees at 15 Russian airports

10 more Russian airports have canceled charging airlines a separate fee for passenger check-in after a warning from the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). Previously, the airports of Volgograd, Gorno-Altaysk, Kaliningrad, Sochi and Chelyabinsk fulfilled the same requirement. As a result, all 15 airport operators eliminated signs of antitrust violations. This was announced on January 27 by the press service of the department.

The FAS clarified that these measures were taken after the agency conducted an analysis of the practice of charging airlines for using the platform for passenger registration. The service has sent appropriate warnings, and now the check-in fees have been canceled at the airports of Blagoveshchensk, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Novy Urengoy, Orenburg, Perm, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Samara and Tobolsk.

"According to the results of the joint work of the FAS of Russia, the Ministry of Transport of Russia and the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia, it was found that the main operators of the 15 largest airports charged a separate tariff for using the public access platform. The organizations installed it on their own," the FAS website says.

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The Antimonopoly Service will have the right to set prices independently.

On December 5 last year, the Federal Antimonopoly Service announced the issuance of warnings to the main operators of Sochi, Kaliningrad and Yekaterinburg airports. It was noted that the cost of passenger check-in should be included in the basic state-regulated service tariff, rather than being allocated as a separate fee.

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