The civil aviation ministry's decision to adopt a hybrid till model will boost the revenues of the Airports Authority of India (AAI), which clocked record earnings in 2015-16.The AAI till now used to set airport charges on a single till model, for which the total revenue and expenditure of all AAI airports were taken into consideration and the tariff for the gap was arrived at on a reasonable rate of return.The hybrid till model is a combination of the single till model, under which all airport activities, including aeronautical and commercial, are taken into consideration while determining airport charges, and the dual till model, under which only aeronautical activities are taken into consideration to set airport charges. The new model will be used to set charges from the second control period, which started from April 2016.The civil aviation policy states that future tariff at all airports will be calculated on a hybrid till model. It adds 30 per cent of all non-aeronautical revenue
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