The budgetdraft approves a large increase of the FY2006 airport development budget

The Ministry of Finance (MOF) released the budget draft for the FY2006 airport development for the Civil Aviation Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT) on December 20 this year. According to that, Airport Development Special Account for FY2006 largely increases by 16% to 572.6 billion yen compared to the FY2005 budget. It is noteworthy that MOF approves 162.4 billion yen for theHaneda Airport Re-expansion Program (100 billion yen more than the FY2005 budget) as MLIT requested. Accordingly, the FY 2006 budget for major core airports development is totally up 33% to 312.2 billion yen compared to the FY2005 budget.

The informal notice also includes increase of the budget for enhancement of safe operations and security countermeasures to 12.5 billion yen for FY2006 from 10.2 billion yen for FY2005, the budget for enhancement of inspection systems to airlines to 257 million yen for FY2006from 137 million yen for FY2005 and the budget for improvement of air transport services to 16.9 billion yen for FY2006 from 15.7 billion yen for FY2005.

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The budget draft approves a large increase of the FY2006 airport development budget
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