Portugal holidays are poised to get more expensive for Brits due to an increase in airport fees, which airlines pay per passenger.
Next year The Portuguese airport authority, ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, is planning to raise charges for commercial jets touching down in its airports.
An extra 10% charge will be levied on every plane - a fee that will almost certainly be passed on to customers.
The latest increase in fees are due to kick in from February and would see passengers pay an extra 30p in the Azores region, 69p in Madeira, 71p in Porto, 70p in Faro, and £1.34 in Lisbon.
It comes off the back of two increases to fees already this year along, with an extra £3 and £2.50 charge per passenger added in September and February respectively.
The money will be used to pay for air traffic controllers, security and baggage crews, Simple Flying reports.
The proposals have already come in for some flack from Portuguese airline TAP, which claims that the extra charges will deter passengers.
Representatives for the airline have argued the hikes are unjustified, given the chaos at Lisbon Airport in particular this year.
"The increases will contribute to worsening the economic situation of TAP Air Portugal, the main customer of the national airports, and the passengers in general," a statement from the company read.
"Especially the Portuguese passengers who are living in the autonomous regions."
The ever vocal Ryanair also laid into the planned price rises, claiming that they were without "justification".
A spokesperson for the Irish airline said “the increase in fees will harm the recovery of tourism in Portugal”.
Off the back of two years of chaos for the aviation industry, a massive losses for both airports and airlines, ticket prices seem to be rising.
Earlier this year Ryanair's CEO Michael O'Leary warned that prices at the budget airline would go up in the coming years.
The budget airline's boss revealed that with the Cost of Living crisis and the soaring cost of fuel, the era of low fares including €10 tickets could be over.
He added that the average Ryanair fare was likely to rise from £35 to £43 in the next five years.
