From CTV June 6 2006

TORONTO — Toronto's Pearson International Airport has emerged as the world's most expensive place to land a plane, according to an annual survey.

It cost $10,986 (U.S.) for a Boeing 747 jetliner, for example, to land at Pearson last year, said a report to be released today by the Air Transport Research Society.

Tae Oum, the society's president and a professor at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, said two airports in Japan placed second and third -- Osaka's Kansai and Tokyo's Narita, which ranked as the priciest airport from 2001 through 2004.

Last year, it cost $7,546 for a Boeing 747 to land at Kansai and $7,040 at Narita. Birmingham, England, came fourth on the list, with $7,013 in landing fees.

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