European Air Fares “To Double” As a Result of Green Tax
Timesonline: Air fares ‘to double’ as Europe votes for green tax
AIR passengers will be charged up to £40 extra for a return ticket within Europe to pay for the environmental impact of their journeys, under plans approved by the European Parliament yesterday.
MEPs voted in favour of the “immediate introduction†of a tax on jet fuel for flights within the 25 member states of the EU. The charge would double the cost of millions of budget airline flights.
The MEPs said that the scheme should cover all flights arriving at or departing from EU airports rather than just intra-EU flights, as had been proposed by BA. But the scheme is likely to be limited to flights within Europe in the early years to avoid legal challenges from the United States and other countries. MEPs also accepted the proposal for a separate environmental tax to cover the impact of nitrogen oxides and condensation trails emitted by aircraft.
The Europeans sure know how to kill their tourism business.
Oh well, better business for the United States and certainly for Boeing.
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migthy7
Blog post fails to mention tha the Europeans are putting a system in service called the Galileo program that will reduce airplane gas comsumption by 30%. reduce noise pollution by about the same, reduce wait-to-land time to almost none and it is independent from the current US-based GPS system. Yes, these Europeans are stupid for doing this. They should just continuing paying the U.S. to use the outdated GPS system…
migthy7
And of course…..Not to mention that 40 english pouns are…$73 dollars.
Hardly “double the rate” and certainly much less that the U.S. goverment charges for “security” fees and other taxes.
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Mighty 7 do you have links that support your first post? I’ll put them up when you send them.
And the quotation of doubling the fares was from a British news source.
And the initial tax increases will be within the EU which may make international flights to the USA more financially attractive.
When I travel I choose the best fare for equal accomodations because I can afford it. However, others may choose to travel within the USA rather than travel to Europe if it becomes unreasonably expensive.
I suppose I will see since I will be flying to London this coming Spring.
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