Skift Take
Twenty airline companies and airports in Europe have actually declined Brussels’ plan to tax jet fuel to make it more costly relative to alternative fuels. Airlines are ideal to worry about competitiveness, but climate activists are wise to watch out for the lobbyists, too.
Sean O’Neill
An alliance of airline companies and airports called for changes to the European Union’s prepared environment change legislation on Monday, arguing it will make them less competitive with non-European competitors.
Taking goal at air travel, a sector deemed accountable for as much as 3% of global emissions, the European Union provided plans last July that predict more stringent rules on CO2 emissions and using artificial fuel blends, along with the implementation of a kerosene tax.
The alliance, whose almost 20 members include all Lufthansa subsidiaries, Air France-KLM and major airports such as Frankfurt and Amsterdam’s Schipol, argues long-haul flights through non-European hubs would not be subjected to the exact same associated expenses, resulting in a possible shift in organization to such providers.
The alliance turns down a kerosene tax outright and proposes that the environmental management additional charge be based on the whole flight path, not simply feeder flights bringing travelers from the EU to international hubs such as Istanbul or Dubai.
In principle, the alliance is however in favour of the EU’s “Suitable for 55” climate plan, which intends to minimize greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 compared with 1990 levels.
(Reporting by Ilona Wissenbach Modifying by Miranda Murray and Susan Fenton)
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