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That’s setting off alarm bells in airline foyer teams and within the tourism ministries of sunny European nations that depend on airborne vacationer visitors.
“For a politician to say we’re doing this within the curiosity of the atmosphere … that’s full bullshit. That’s mendacity,” Walsh, director basic of the International Air Transport Association airline foyer, advised POLITICO.
Walsh, the previous chief government of Aer Lingus and British Airways, warned that “it’s nearly not possible for any of that cash [from taxes] to circulation again to the business to enhance environmental efficiency.” He added that the one impact of latest levies might be to make it tougher for individuals to fly, decreasing plane load components as an alternative of emissions and leaving the habits of the most important polluters unchanged.
According to Walsh, any new tax on flights “is simply to generate income. Will it cease anyone flying in a personal jet? It’s not going to cease it, you’re not going to see a change in conduct and that’s the difficulty.”
Angry sunny spots
Hoekstra’s pledges to tax aviation are significantly angering tourism-dependent Mediterranean nations.
On Dec. 10, throughout a Council assembly with financial system ministers, the southern nations reiterated their rejection of the kerosene tax proposed by the European Commission as a part of the reform of the Energy Taxation Directive.
