THE New Zealand envoy has affirmed Wellington’s support to help the Philippine government improve the ease of doing business and increase revenue collections from airlines, the Department of Finance (DoF) said in a statement on Tuesday. New Zealand Ambassador to Manila David Strachan recently met with Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd. The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), Strachan said, can also adopt Airways New Zealand’s “Flight-Yield” automated aviation billing system to help raise more revenues from the fees that the government collects from airlines. New Zealand’s Flight-Yield system automatically retrieves details of all flights from an air traffic management system and apply the appropriate charges for each air traffic control service used by each flight. Strachan said the Flight-Yield system was first presented by New Zealand to CAAP in December 2014, but nothing came of it.

Source: Manila Times February 21, 2017 17:37 UTC