Qantas chief to meet with Perth Airport amid bitter fee feud

Qantas CE Alan Joyce will meet with Perth Airport chairman Nev Power to discuss the airport fee dispute that has been raging publicly since December. Joyce is in Perth this week to discuss the furore around aeronautical fees, which resulted in the airport taking the airline to the WA Supreme Court to recoup more than A$11m in unpaid fees in the 6 months to Dec 2018. The previous fee schedule expired June 30, 2018. The airport started charging Qantas proposed rates and claims the airline has only paid $16.5m of $27.8m billed. The dispute resulted in a public spat between the two entities with Qantas criticising the amount of profit the airport was reaping in a submission to a Productivity Commission inquiry into Australian airport fees. <br/>