What is the TUUA airport fee in Peru, and who sets what you pay?

What the TUUA is

TUUA stands for Tarifa Unificada de Uso de Aeropuerto, the unified airport use fee. It is one of the fees charged by the operator of a concessioned airport. Ositrán’s User Regulation lists it among airport services: «Servicios aeroportuarios en relación a la TUUA» (airport services related to the TUUA; art. 22(b)).

At Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, the operator is the concessionaire Lima Airport Partners S.R.L. (LAP). The concession contract, as Ositrán transcribes it, says «la TUUA tiene la finalidad de cubrir los costos por servicios indicados en el Apéndice 1» (the TUUA is meant to cover the costs of the services listed in Appendix 1). We did not read that Appendix.

Ositrán distinguishes three TUUAs at Jorge Chávez: the domestic and the international, which together it calls the «TUUA de origen» (origin TUUA), and the transfer TUUA, for connecting passengers.

Who sets each one

The transfer amounts are maximum values: Resolution 005-2026 says Resolution 0019-2025 set «los valores máximos de la TUUA de Transferencia» (the maximum values of the transfer TUUA). They run until 31 December 2030. The texts don’t say whether they include IGV.

Ositrán is the regulator of public-use transport infrastructure. Resolution 005-2026 itself recalls that, under Ley 27332, the regulatory function «comprende la facultad de fijar tarifas de los servicios bajo su ámbito de competencia» (includes the power to set fees for the services within its remit).

For the origin TUUA, the regulator doesn’t set the amount from scratch. Ositrán puts it this way: «el Anexo 5 del Contrato de Concesión del AIJC fija expresamente las tarifas de la TUUA de origen, así como su mecanismo de revisión (RPI-X) y la periodicidad para dicha revisión» (Annex 5 of the airport’s concession contract expressly sets the origin TUUA rates, their review mechanism, RPI-X, and how often they are reviewed). According to the report attached to the resolution, after the first eight years of the concession those rates «se reajustarían periódicamente por la variación del índice de precios al consumidor de los Estados Unidos de América, menos un porcentaje estimado de los incrementos de productividad» (would be adjusted periodically by the change in the US consumer price index, minus an estimated productivity percentage).

The transfer TUUA: what was decided in 2025 and 2026

The origin: Addendum 6 (2013). The contract was amended so that «a los pasajeros en transferencia se les aplica una TUUA» (a TUUA applies to transfer passengers). Under clause four of that addendum, as Ositrán transcribes it, the concessionaire will charge that TUUA «a partir de la puesta en operación del Nuevo Terminal de Pasajeros» (from when the New Passenger Terminal starts operating). Ositrán describes that terminal as infrastructure that «inició operaciones en 2025» (started operating in 2025).

The fee: Resolution 0019-2025-CD-OSITRAN. Ositrán approved it on 23 November 2025 and it was published in El Peruano on 25 November 2025. According to the summary in the 2026 joint report, it set the transfer TUUA, «vigente hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2030» (in force until 31 December 2030), at these values: «TUUA de Transferencia para los pasajeros INT-INT: USD 10,05 por pasajero» and «TUUA de Transferencia para los pasajeros DOM-DOM: USD 6,32 por pasajero». Spanish uses a comma for decimals: USD 10.05 and USD 6.32.

The airlines’ challenge. On 17 December 2025, the Association of International Air Transport Companies (AETAI) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) asked for reconsideration. Among other points, they argued the fee would hurt the airport’s competitiveness against other hubs, because it makes tickets more expensive and reduces demand.

The answer: Resolution 005-2026-CD-OSITRAN (4 February 2026). Ositrán joined the two requests, rejected both as unfounded and decided «Confirmar la Resolución de Consejo Directivo N° 0019-2025-CD-OSITRAN, dando por agotada la vía administrativa» (to confirm Resolution 0019-2025, closing the administrative route; arts. 1 to 4). Some of its reasons:

• The fee isn’t a discretionary decision by Ositrán: it responds to «un mandato contractual contenido en la Adenda N° 6» (a contractual mandate in Addendum 6).
• The transfer TUUA «remunera los servicios puestos a disposición de los pasajeros en transferencia y no su consumo efectivo» (pays for the services made available to transfer passengers, not their actual use). In other words, it isn’t calculated on how much of the terminal you use.
• On competitiveness, Ositrán said the airlines’ analyses were partial and ignored the new terminal and the second runway coming into operation.

What remains open. Article 5 orders a review of the calculation once the recognition of the Expansion’s investments is finished, «a efectos de que se actualice exclusivamente el componente de inversiones» (so that only the investment component is updated). See “Possible changes ahead”.

What these texts don’t say. They don’t say whether the amounts include IGV, or whether the TUUA is charged inside the ticket or separately, and they set no value for a connection between a domestic and an international flight. Nor do they say what the origin TUUA is today. We did not read Resolution 0019-2025 directly: its amounts come from the report that Resolution 005-2026 declares an integral part of itself.

Not everything Ositrán sets is paid by you

On 12 March 2026, Resolution 012-2026-CD-OSITRAN issued an access mandate to LAP in favour of seven airlines for their operating offices in the new terminal. It set the access charge: the intermediate user (the airline) must pay LAP «en calidad de Cargo de Acceso y como contraprestación por el arrendamiento del Área la suma de US$ 61,13 (sesenta y uno con 13/100 dólares americanos) por m2 al mes sin IGV» (as an access charge and rent for the area, US$ 61.13 per m² per month before IGV).

It is a payment between the airline and the airport, not a passenger fee. If a news story presents it as a new charge on your ticket, that is not what the resolution says.

The price you see before you pay

The Civil Aviation Law Regulation (D.S. 050-2001-MTC) sets out what information must appear in the air transport contract. D.S. 007-2026-MTC, published on 5 March 2026, amended literal f) of its article 232, on ticket price information: the net value, taxes, fees and charges, and the payment methods for items not included. We do not quote its wording here.

In practice: before paying, compare the transport price with what is added as taxes, fees and charges. If you don’t understand an item, ask before confirming the purchase and keep the screenshot.

If you’re charged wrongly: where to complain

It depends on who charged you:

• If the charge is in your ticket, complain to the airline in its Libro de Reclamaciones (complaints book) and, if it doesn’t answer or resolve it, to Indecopi.
• If the airport charged you, complain to the operator. Ositrán’s complaints regulation covers complaints about «la facturación y el cobro de los servicios por uso de la infraestructura» (billing and charging for use of the infrastructure) and about «defectos en la información proporcionada a los usuarios, respecto de las tarifas» (defects in the fee information given to users; Res. 019-2011-CD-OSITRAN, art. 33(a) and (g)). Our reading is that a wrongful TUUA charge by the operator falls under literal (a).

The operator must also publish on its website «las tarifas y/o precios, así como los posibles recargos, de corresponder» (its fees and/or prices, and any surcharges; User Regulation, art. 15(a)). If it doesn’t, you can complain about that too.

Channels, deadlines and appeals are in where to complain at an airport.