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This excerpt taken from the PAC 20-F filed Jun 27, 2008.

Regulated Revenues

The majority of our revenues are derived from providing aeronautical services, which generally are related to the use of airport facilities by airlines and passengers and principally consist of a fee for each departing passenger, aircraft landing fees based on an aircraft’s weight and arrival time, an aircraft parking fee, a fee for the transfer of passengers from an aircraft to the terminal building and a security charge for each departing passenger.

Since January 1, 2000, all of our revenues from aeronautical services have been subject to a price regulation system established by the Ministry of Communications and Transportation. Under this price regulation system, the Ministry of Communications and Transportation establishes a maximum rate for each airport for every year in a five-year period. The maximum rate is the maximum amount of revenues per workload unit that may be earned at an airport each year from regulated revenues sources. Under this regulation, a workload unit is equivalent to one terminal passenger or 100 kilograms of cargo. We are able to set the specific prices for each aeronautical service every six months (or more frequently if accumulated inflation since the last adjustment exceeds 5%), as long as the combined revenues from regulated services at an airport do not exceed the maximum rate per workload unit at that airport. Since our aggregate revenues resulting from regulated services are not otherwise restricted, increases in passenger and cargo traffic permit greater revenues overall within each five-year interval for which maximum rates are established.

 

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On July 15, 2003, we entered into an agreement with the National Air Transportation Chamber of Commerce (Cámara Nacional de Aerotransportes) and the Ministry of Communications and Transportation pursuant to which we resolved existing disputes with our principal airline customers and established specific prices for aeronautical services applicable to those airlines for 2003 and 2004 and a methodology for retroactively applying those prices from 2000, since these airlines had refused to pay certain of our charges since that year. In March 2005, we renewed an agreement with these customers that expired at year-end 2006. In December 2006 a new agreement was signed that covers an increasing percentage of total passenger charges over the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 and has set prices for each aeronautical service over this three-year period, with increases only possible as a result of the average of increases in the Consumer Price Index (Índice Nacional de Precios al Consumidor) and the Producers Price Index Excluding Petroleum (Índice Nacional de Precios al Productor, excluyendo petróleo) published by the Mexican Central Bank.

In 2007, approximately 80.9% of our total revenues were earned from aeronautical services subject to price regulation under our maximum rates.

Our revenues from non-aeronautical services, including revenues that we earn from most commercial activities in our terminals, are not regulated under our maximum-rate price regulation system and are therefore not subject to a ceiling. For a description of how we classify our revenues into aeronautical and non-aeronautical services, see “Item 5, Operating and Financial Review and Prospects—Classification of Revenues.”

This excerpt taken from the PAC 20-F filed Jun 29, 2007.

Regulated Revenues

          The majority of our revenues are derived from providing aeronautical services, which generally are related to the use of airport facilities by airlines and passengers and principally consist of a fee for each departing passenger, aircraft landing fees based on an aircraft’s weight and arrival time, an aircraft parking fee, a fee for the transfer of passengers from an aircraft to the terminal building and a security charge for each departing passenger.

          Since January 1, 2000, all of our revenues from aeronautical services have been subject to a price regulation system established by the SCT. Under this price regulation system, the SCT establishes a maximum rate for each airport for every year in a five-year period. The maximum rate is the maximum amount of revenues per workload unit that may be earned at an airport each year from regulated revenues sources. Under this regulation, a workload unit is equivalent to one terminal passenger or 100 kilograms of cargo. We are able to set the specific prices for each aeronautical service every six months (or more frequently if accumulated inflation since the last adjustment exceeds 5%), as long as the combined revenues from regulated services at an airport do not exceed the maximum rate per workload unit at that airport. Since our aggregate revenues resulting from regulated services are not otherwise restricted, increases in passenger and cargo traffic permit greater revenues overall within each five-year interval for which maximum rates are established.

          On July 15, 2003, we entered into an agreement with the National Air Transportation Chamber of Commerce (Cámara Nacional de Aerotransportes) and the SCT pursuant to which we resolved existing disputes with our principal airline customers and established specific prices for aeronautical services applicable to those airlines for 2003 and 2004 and a methodology for retroactively applying those prices from 2000, since these airlines had refused to pay certain of our charges since that year. In March 2005, we renewed an agreement with these customers that expired at year-end 2006. In December 2006 a new agreement was signed and in that agreement we set all the specific prices for each aeronatical service for the following three years only with

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the possibility to increase them by the increase in the Cosumer Price Index published by the Mexican Central Bank.

          In 2006, approximately 81.4% of our total revenues were earned from aeronautical services subject to price regulation under our maximum rates.

          Our revenues from non-aeronautical services, including revenues that we earn from most commercial activities in our terminals, are not regulated under our maximum-rate price regulation system and are therefore not subject to a ceiling. For a description of how we classify our revenues into aeronautical and non-aeronautical services, see “Item 5, Operating and Financial Review and Prospects—Classification of Revenues.”

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