The new state commercial enterprises Act will apply to
the CAA’s business operations from the beginning of
2006. Its primary principles include eliminating so called
cross-subventions and managing services which are unprofitable
for the CAA on the client-supplier model – if a client
can be found. The CAA has nothing against these principles.
If certain airport services that people are used to but
which are unprofitable for the CAA are reduced or stopped,
it will not be the CAA that is to blame but the lack of
a client willing to pay.
However, some small recognition for the network principle
of Finnish airports can be found in the preamble to the
State Commercial Enterprises Act: “Harmonised pricing
will not be regarded as cross-subvention in cases where
several operational units make up a commercially coherent
network.”
