The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has expressed strong concern over recent remarks by Maurici Lucena, chairman and chief executive of AENA, Spain’s main airport operator, after he suggested that airlines calling for reductions in airport charges were “compromising safety and security”.
Responding to the comments, IATA Director General Willie Walsh said that safety remains the aviation industry’s top priority and rejected any suggestion that airlines would jeopardise it.
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