Airlines Are Not Happy With The New 'Eco Tax' Imposed By The French Government On Them. Although, The Tax Is Not So Effecting For Domestic Flights But Its A Huge Hit For Passengers Flying Out Of France.
The New Levied Tax Is Said To Be Increasing €18 Per Ticket. While. On The Domestic Flights It is Said To Be around €1.50. The Tax Is Expected To Give An Annual Rise Of Around €180 Million By 2020 For The French Government.
According To IATA, "The Tax Is Misguided".
According To The Report By IATA 4 out of 5 residents actually don't believe that their government actually spends the money on environmental improvements.
Airlines Have Already Been Spending a lot of money for reducing carbon emissions.
The tax is a major hit for airliners as the demand for air travel would gradually fall down. The tax obtained would be used in other means of eco-friendly travel like rail transport etc. There Would Be no betterment or development in the aviation industry.
The imposing of this tax would be soon leading to a drastic fall in the demand for air travel. The tax will certainly not help the industry to invest in cleaner fuels and technology. The tax would be led to people with less money not fulfilling their ambitions.
Air France The Major Operator In France Whose More Than 50% Flights Are Outside France, Has To Tackle It, Anyhow?
The report by IATA states the following report:
Since 1990, airlines have reduced carbon emissions per passenger 50 percent and from 2020 will be paying to offset all the growth in emissions. A tax will not help the industry to invest in cleaner fuels and technology. It will also damage EUR 100 billion that aviation generates for the French economy, and 500,000 new jobs are at risk from the lack of competitiveness of French aviation. On their behalf, we will hold the French government to account to spend this tax on accelerating aviation sustainability, especially prioritizing more efficient air traffic control and promoting sustainable fuels. This measure would be extremely penalizing for Air France, of which 50 percent of its flights are operated out of France, and notably for its domestic network, where losses amounted to above 180 million euros in 2018. In addition, last month, the government had ruled out taxation at (a) national level due to the unfair competition that this would cause. The government’s decision is all the more incomprehensible as this new air transport tax would reportedly finance competitive modes of transport including road transportation and not the energy transition in the air transport sector. Such a transition could have been facilitated by supporting the implementation of sustainable biofuel industries or disruptive innovations. I think that one way to reduce these things is to count the costs of what it is that air travel costs in real terms – in what it costs the environment. And if you cost that, then you will see the tickets are extraordinarily cheap.
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