02/28/2003 - Updated 06:32 AM ET Sydney airport to impose terrorism insurance fee on airlines CANBERRA, Australia (AP) =97 Visitors flying to and from Sydney will likely= =20 have to pay an extra terrorism insurance levy on the price of their=20 tickets, airline officials said Friday.Sydney Airports Corp., a private=20 company, wrote to airlines Friday telling them it would impose a new charge= =20 for three months beginning April 1 to recoup extra insurance costs due to=20 the threat of terrorism."It is only a cost recovery. We do not seek to=20 profit from such extraordinary business costs," airport chief Max=20 Moore-Wilton said. "After June we will review the situation and adjust=20 charges commensurate with the insurance market at the time."Airlines are=20 expected to pass the charge on to travelers, probably at a rate of about 4= =20 Australian dollars ($2.40) per customer for international round-trip=20 flights and A$2 ($1.20) for domestic return flights. *************************************************** The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site/TnTisland.com Roj (Roger James) escape email mailto:ejames@escape.ca Trinbago site: www.tntisland.com Carib Brass Ctn site www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ Steel Expressions www.mts.net/~ejames/se/ Site of the Week: http://www.dbombo.net/muddyangels/ TnT Webdirectory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************