Scrapping exemptions for long-haul and private flights and taxing non-CO2 emissions could multiply EU aviation carbon revenues tenfold, a new report says
This revenue would come from us paying higher prices for airplanes. It’s just another tax on us. Private jets - sure, but the majority of this 1€ trillion would come from us, plebs flying to Mallorca on holidays.
Do you have any sources for those claims? It seems crazy to me that the majority of European air travel is American companies flying consultants. That can’t be true.
Actually, air travel for work is about 10% of the trips, while tourism is 90%. But super flyers represent a disproportionate amount of the leisure flights.
So most people would hardly notice (those who fly more often can afford the tax, and the others don’t fly enough).
Don’t you think they’d already be charging more for flights if they could? They are trying to set them as high as customers will reasonably pay always. This tax doesn’t change that. It only changes their costs.
This revenue would come from us paying higher prices for airplanes. It’s just another tax on us. Private jets - sure, but the majority of this 1€ trillion would come from us, plebs flying to Mallorca on holidays.
Wrong. It would mainly come from companies flying consultants around for their daily work.
You may fly once? Twice? Thrice ? For your holidays. Some people fly every single week.
And it’s mostly American firms. So make them pay.
Do you have any sources for those claims? It seems crazy to me that the majority of European air travel is American companies flying consultants. That can’t be true.
Actually, air travel for work is about 10% of the trips, while tourism is 90%. But super flyers represent a disproportionate amount of the leisure flights.
So most people would hardly notice (those who fly more often can afford the tax, and the others don’t fly enough).
You have some stats here: https://neweconomics.org/2025/06/introducing-the-ultra-frequent-flyer
Don’t you think they’d already be charging more for flights if they could? They are trying to set them as high as customers will reasonably pay always. This tax doesn’t change that. It only changes their costs.