TEMPE — Echoing Doug Parker’s plea for the government to “do no harm” to the airline industry, C. A. Howlett, US Airways’ top government affairs officer, outlined the challenges the industry — and US Airways in particular — face in the policy environment. His primary focus was the pending FAA reauthorization bill. Put off since [...]
Posts Tagged ‘environment’
“There’s no part of our operation that government can’t find a way to improve.”
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, competition, congress, consumer advocacy, environment, faa, labor, politics, regulation, us airways on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ATA conference call on airlines’ environmental performance
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged ata, congress, energy, environment, network airlines, regulation on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions correlate nearly exactly, U.S. airlines have a financial incentive to improve their environmental performance. According to officials at the Air Transport Association, the national trade group for commercial airlines, environmental performance continues to improve and other initiatives are on deck.
Speaking in a conference call with several aviation bloggers, [...]
Britain keeps, raises Air Passenger Duty
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged competition, environment, europe, tax, travel on November 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Britain is keeping in place — and raising — its Air Passenger Duty, a per-passenger charge levied on airline itineraries originating in Britain. The government had promised to design a new charge based on aircraft; the current charge does not correlate actual emissions to charges for them. Two aircraft of identical capacity but with different [...]
Airline to cut carbon emissions! . . . by doing what it was already doing anyway
Posted in Evan's Fiskings, tagged business, energy, environment, fedex on November 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
An interesting item in the Commercial Appeal of Memphis, my hometown newspaper:
FedEx issued its first Global Citizenship Report Wednesday, touting plans for big cuts in pollution by jets and delivery trucks. . . . On the environmental front, the company aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions by FedEx Express jets by 20 percent within less [...]
Obama, McCain advisers on transportation issues
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, Aviation08, congress, delays, dot, environment, faa, politics on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Top policy advisers to Barack Obama and John McCain differed on key transportation issues at a forum in Washington this morning, but they agreed, in the words of McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin, when it comes to transportation, “the ratio of importance to discussion on the campaign trail is high.”
Mortimer Downey, Obama’s senior transportation adviser and [...]
McCain and Obama speak out on general aviation
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, Aviation08, Deregulation 2.0, environment, faa, general aviation, politics on October 19, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association have released the candidates’ answers (or, more accurately, the campaigns’ answers) to their election questionnaire. One of the interesting points about this questionnaire is that even though John McCain has not articulated an aviation agenda, he/his campaign can draw on his Commerce Committee experience to answer these questions pointedly [...]
“Green idealists fail to make grade, says study”
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged environment, europe on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An item of interest from the Guardian:
According to the researchers, people who regularly recycle rubbish and save energy at home are also the most likely to take frequent long-haul flights abroad. The carbon emissions from such flights can swamp the green savings made at home, the researchers claim.
Stewart Barr, of Exeter University, who led the [...]
It’s easy being green
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged business, environment, virgin on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A much-trafficked article yesterday from Ireland’s Sunday Business Post offers a thorough takedown of Richard Branson’s green claims about the Virgin Group’s airlines:
In September 2006, Virgin boss Richard Branson pledged €1.9 billion towards tackling global warming. For the next ten years, he announced, the profits from his aviation and rail businesses would go towards combating [...]
What’s Dutch for “told you so”?
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged airports, environment, europe, klm, tax, travel on June 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Dutch “green tax” on aviation, which I’ve blogged about here and here, is already negatively affecting Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, according to a report:
Some 50,000 fewer passengers are expected to use Amsterdam Schiphol airport, one of Europe’s busiest, this summer on account of a Dutch environmental tax on flights, it was reported Saturday.
“We’re expected zero [...]
Good riddance to Dutch travel tax
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged environment, europe, klm, tax, travel on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Dutch travel tax has been so successful, it has to be scrapped:
The Dutch Government is to scrap from July 1 its air passenger ticket tax, first dubbed the ‘eco’ tax when it was introduced against major opposition by aviation and local industry last year. The controversial departure tax, which ranges from 11 to 45 [...]
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