BA calls for UK to join EU emissions trading scheme
Brisith Airways has called on the Government to scrap Air Passenger Duty and instead join the EU emissions trading scheme.
Reacting to the Government’s decision in the pre-Budget report to charge APD per aircraft rather than per passenger from November 2009, a BA spokesman said: “There is no evidence to suggest that APD has been used to fund environmental initiatives and there will be no guarantee that a flight based tax will either.
“Our share of APD revenue for the government is now £400 million a year. With this money the government could offset our entire C02 emissions four times over.
“Once aviation is included in the EU scheme, we expect APD or any replacement tax to be ended.”
By Bev Fearis
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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