Home
report
Price regulation of airport services (2007)
Inquiry report
Download this publication
Overview (PDF 210.7 KB)
Review of price regulation of airports services (PDF 843.6 KB)
Review of price regulation of airports services - by chapters (ZIP 1.3 MB)
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Opportunity for further comment, Terms of reference, Contents, Abbreviations, Key points, Overview, Draft Recommendations
1 Background and context
1.1 Background to the inquiry
1.2 Some boundaries for the inquiry
1.3 Some factors bearing on the Commission’s analysis
1.4 A guide to the rest of the report
2 Price and rate of return outcomes
2.1 Prices
2.2 Changes in costs
2.3 Rates of return
2.4 Have price and profit outcomes been reasonable?
3 Other monitoring outcomes
3.1 Structure of charges
3.2 Service quality
3.3 New investment
3.4 Non-price terms and conditions
3.5 Progress in implementing commercial negotiation and dispute resolution
3.6 Compliance costs
4 Should price monitoring continue?
4.1 Objectives of price monitoring
4.2 How well has monitoring worked in practice?
4.3 A further period of price monitoring is warranted
4.4 How should the new arrangements operate?
4.5 Which airports should be monitored?
5 Changes to the implementation of price and service quality monitoring
5.1 Service coverage issues
5.2 Quality of service monitoring
5.3 Changes to reporting arrangements
6 Asset valuation issues
6.1 Why is asset valuation of policy interest?
6.2 Background to the current debate
6.3 Should asset revaluations provide a basis for higher charges?
6.4 Some cost of capital considerations
7 Facilitating commercial negotiations
7.1 Current arrangements
7.2 How well have these arrangements worked?
7.3 Assisting the transition process
8 Other matters
8.1 Regional airlines’ access to Sydney Airport
8.2 Government-provided airport services
8.3 International air services
A Inquiry information
B Current regulatory arrangements for airport services
C Airports and related information
D Declaration of domestic airside services at Sydney Airport
References