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07/24/2013
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Injunction also ensures that fee, up to R$ 7 is highlighted in the passage
Anac predicted that fee should be levied on enterprises
RIO - The airlines won in court the right to pass on to passengers charging the call connection fee, whose amount stipulated by the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) is up to R$ 7 per passenger. The value is applied for each connection in domestic or international flights. The injunction was granted by the judge of the 8 th Antonio Claudio Macedo da Silva of the Federal Regional Court of the Federal District for about ten days.
In addition to charge users, companies will highlight the fare on the ticket, which should be done in the coming days, according to the Brazilian Association of Airline Companies (Abear), which brings together the four major companies in the sector. ANAC says it will appeal the decision.
The connection fee was created by MP 551, of November 22, 2011, converted into Law 12,648, of May 17, 2012 and recently regulated by ANAC. In the opinion of the agency, the charge should fall on the airlines. The companies, however, understand that they should serve only as collecting societies, the value of collecting and transferring passengers to the port authority, as they do with the rate of loading.
After the failure of negotiations with Anac to change the perception of the agency, the National Union of Enterprises Aeroviárias (Snea), with support from Abear, filed legal action in late June, claiming that the charge was made and the passenger the rate to be discriminated against in the passage.
In his ruling, the judge said that "the companies affiliated to the author (the Snea) are not liable for the connection charge, allowing them to highlight the airline ticket value correlate to later transfer to the airport agent". In practice, they can charge users.
ANAC will appeal
"The purpose of this measure is to give transparency to this new collection. We want to make clear to the consumer that the airlines receive it directly for their services - and over which they have decision-making power in relation to the values and quality - and with respect to the charges that are made by airport operators, public or private on which companies do not have any interference, "the president said in a statement the Abear, Eduardo Sanovicz.
The connection charge had already been established in the contracts of privatized airports in 2012 (Brasília, Guarulhos and Congonhas). Recently, it was regulated by the ANAC to pass to be charged from the 19th of this month, in 63 airports INFRAERO - including Galeão and Santos Dumont - and those administered by states and municipalities.
In a statement, Anac said "this ruling forwards the user to a rate that was set up to be paid by the companies." The agency will appeal the decision by the Attorney General Advocacy of the Union
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