Major airports will be forced to hand over more information about the money they make from parking and other services, in a federal government plan that has infuriated critics who want more drastic intervention to halt price hikes.

The Morrison government will require the nation's biggest airports to reveal more about their business to help the competition regulator assess the operators, backing a call from the Productivity Commission for more scrutiny.

Airports will be forced to hand over more information about the money they make from parking and other services. Credit:Pat Scala

But airlines said the government had "squibbed" the chance to give Australians better value after complaints airports were abusing their "monopoly" power.

"The government must urgently rethink this, because Australia's airlines and airport users face significantly increasing costs that will lead to more disputes like the multi-year court case where Perth Airport is suing Qantas to extract monopoly rent," said Graeme Samuel, the chairman of Airlines for Australia and New Zealand.