The cost of international travel to Panama will go up $20 per passenger starting in January to help cover the cost of the terminal expansion. Current fees paid per passenger are $20 and now will go to $40 according to this brief article in La Prensa.
Excerpts:Using airport fee will be $ 40 next year
A partir del 1 enero de 2010, la llamada tasa por servicio al pasajero internacional, en Tocumen, aumentará de $20 a $40. From 1 January 2010, the call rate for international passenger service, in Tocumen, will rise from $ 20 to $ 40.
The increase is because the board of the Civil Aviation Authority, who chairs the Interior and Justice Minister, Jose Raul Mulino "argued that the Government has invested $ 100 million in the modernization of Tocumen Airport, the benefit of passengers use the air terminal.
The measure, which was published in the Official Gazette on Monday, maintains the existing 50% discount to retirees.
In January 1993, the cost of that fee went from $ 10 to $ 20.
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