CAB requests 100 billion yen more budget for FY2006

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Civil Aviation Bureau (CAB) announced on August 29 that it has requested a total of 598.3 billion yen for airport development special account in FY2006 starting April 1 2006. The total amount is about 100 billion yen more the FY2005 budget of 495.6 billion yen mainly because CAB has requested large increase of budget for the Haneda re-expansion program. Also, CAB will pay more attention to aviation and airport security (countermeasures against terrorism or hijacking) for FY2006, for whichit has requested 5.4 billion yen more budget than the FY2005 budget.

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CAB requests 100 billion yen more budget for FY2006
Airport
*Fourteen additional slotswill be available at Haneda from this coming October
*Narita passengers for July reduced first time since May
*Kansai reduced international passengers in July
Airline
*JAL is serious about riseof domestic flight airfares after next January
*China Southern revealed its intension to fly into New Kitakyushu
*Bangkok Airways hopes to fly into Hiroshima in December
*Shanghai Airlines will fly into Toyama
*Domestic passengers for the first quarter of FY2005 slightly increased
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