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Review of CAA fees, levies, and charges 2024

The review of CAA fees, levies, and charges has concluded, and the updated pricing is shown below.

These prices were considered and approved by Cabinet and will take effect 01 July 2025 and remain until 30 June 2027.

Summary of prices:

  • Passenger safety levy $3.92 (ANZA $3.85)
  • Domestic passenger security levy $10.91
  • International passenger security levy $22.30
  • All other levies, fees and charges increase by 10%

Cabinet has approved the pricing rates as maximums and allowed flexibility for reductions, should further opportunities for efficiency be identified over the next two years.

Any reductions to the levels being implemented will be notified no later than 30 days ahead of them coming into effect, on 01 July 2025.

On this page

Key documents
What happens now?
Purpose of the review
About the consultation

Key documents

Document title / description Date published

2024 Pricing review Cost Recovery Impact Statement (final) [PDF 1.8 MB]

 17 January 2025
2024 Pricing review – Summary of Submissions Coming soon
Full consultation document [PDF 897 KB] 27 August 2024
2024 KPMG Review of AvSec Levies Assumptions [PDF 6.4 MB] 27 August 2024
2024 Pricing review Cost Recovery Impact Statement (consultation version) [PDF 3.1 MB] 27 August 2024
Consultation document quick guide [PDF 269 KB] 29 August 2024
Updated Appendix 5 to consultation document [PDF 436 KB] 3 October 2024

What happens now?

  • A summary of submissions will be published here soon.
  • Required regulatory amendments will be in place by 31 May 2025 and come into effect on 1 July 2025 and remain until 30 June 2027.
  • Final prices will be published in the Gazette

Purpose of the review

The Government will no longer provide financial support to the Authority beyond 30 June 2025. The review is intended to re-establish a sustainable funding model.

What was included:

  • An examination of current pricing levels of CAA fees, levies, and charges
  • An explanation of the Authority’s income and funding pressures
  • Analysis of consequences if fees, levies and charges aren’t increased
  • Cost recovery options that each recover the same level of revenue, with the allocation split differently, which incorporate the rebuilding of the Authority’s cash reserves in accordance with the Authority’s Reserves and Funding Policy, and which assume that baseline Crown funding (current funding for things like ministerial servicing and international engagement) remains unchanged.

What wasn’t included:

  • This review does not propose changes to the current cost-recovery model, and no new funding mechanisms are being developed.
  • The review does not consider the level of Crown funding that the Authority receives.
  • This consultation also does not include changes to pricing levels for some items that were included in our suspended 2020 Pricing Review consultation, including specific cost recovery settings for the unmanned aircraft and emerging technology sector, Airport Identification Cards, Regulated Aviation Cargo Agents or the current basis of the Agriculture Levy. These will be considered in the broader review of the funding model.

About the consultation

Aviation participants, the travelling public, and other interested parties were invited to make submissions on proposals from 27 August to 8 October 2024. 126 submissions were received.

We analysed submissions to inform recommendations to the Minister of Transport and Cabinet.

A summary of submissions will be published here soon.

During the consultation period:

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