DENVER-
Great Lakes Aviation on Monday disputed the amount that city officials said the company owes for using Denver International Airport and said it intended to follow procedures spelled out in its lease to resolve the difference.
The city auditor’s office on Sunday said the airline owes the city $482,244 in various fees and interest for using DIA from 2000 to 2004. Charges include $276,585 in underpaid landing fees, apparently due to Great Lakes Aviation using the wrong aircraft weights to calculate the fees after it switched aircraft models.
In a statement, the company said it disagreed.
Under an airport use and lease agreement, interest on payments due to the city accrues at 18 percent annually, the report said.
The payment due part of the $10.5 million owed for 2004, with the airline already having paid more than $10 million of that amount, the audit showed.
Cheyenne, Wyo.-based Great Lakes operates 150 weekday flights out of DIA.
