Aviation charges are user payments for air navigation services and aeronautical services at airports. It includes en route charges, terminal navigation charges,  landing fees, passenger fees, security fees, parking fees, etc.

The basic regulation on aviation charges is the ICAO Policies on Charges for Airports and Air Navigation Services and the relevant ICAO guidance materials. Within the EU separate additional regulation is established covering air navigation charges and airport charges.

The basic principle in the various regulations is that the charges shall be: Cost related, transparent and non-discriminatory.

Keld Ludvigsen is one of the worlds most experienced persons in the field of aviation charges, and has extensive knowledge and experience in these areas from:

• As long-time member of the ICAO Airport Economics Panel (AEP) and long-time member and chairman of the ICAO Air Navigation Services Economics Panel (ANSEP) he has substantially contributed to the development of the ICAO Policies on Charges for Airports and Air Navigation Services and the drafting of the relevant guidance materials;
• Chairman of the North Atlantic Economic And Financial Group and responsible for the Joint Finance Agreement between Denmark and ICAO on the financing of certain air navigation services in Sondrestrom FIR (Greenland);
• Long-time Danish representative and chairman of the Eurocontrol Enlarged Committee for Route Charges – the governing body of the common route charges system in Europe, covering 41 member States, billing, collecting and reimbursing route charges for approximately 9 billion EUR each year;
• The main architect behind the development of the model for setting charges at Copenhagen Airport, introducing at first, direct negotiations between the airport authority and the airline companies and secondly, if they do not reach an agreement, a fall back regulation taking into account a reasonable return on the invested capital, the revenue from the commercial activities and an efficiency factor.