What the ACCC does
- We track and report on prices, costs and profits of services at major Australian airports.
What the ACCC can't do
- We don’t regulate Australian airports.
- We don’t track or report on services provided through smaller airports.
The ACCC tracks prices, costs, profits and quality of aeronautical, car parking and landside access services at Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney airports.
We monitor to provide more transparency on:
We report our findings to the Treasurer every year.
We publish an airport monitoring report every year, as part of our monitoring role.
See Airport monitoring reports for a complete list of reports we have published.
The ACCC’s functions mainly come from directions issued by the Assistant Treasurer under section 95ZF of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010:
The monitoring of the quality of aeronautical services is in line with Part 8 of the Airports Act 1996.
Airports supply information on landside access services voluntarily.