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
