New Castle Airport (Wilmington/Philadelphia ILG) plans to add a passenger service fee.
The fee is levied at all airports with commercial service and help pay for equipment, runway and other improvements made in the past or slated for the future.
Airports can add a fee of up to $4.50 for every passenger who boards a flight from a given city. A public notice filing earlier this year indicated the $4.50 charge per passenger would raise $1.8 million over a multi-year period.
The airport recorded passenger traffic of about 68,000 between the launch of Frontier Airlines service in July and the end of February, according to federal figures.
Wilmington remains a low-cost airport in terms of landing fees, a major reason for the decision by Frontier Airlines to add flights to seven cities, with that number falling to six when the carrier drops seasonal service to Detroit.
