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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
The “green” tax dilemma
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged airports, competition, environment, europe, tax, travel on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
News came out today that the U.S. embassy in London has responded harshly to plans by HM Treasury to change the Air Passenger Duty into a per-plane tax at great expense to airlines and, ultimately, travelers. Air Passenger Duty was last raised dramatically in 2006 as an anti-climate change measure. Then-chancellor (and current prime minister) [...]
Revisiting climate change: a crow appetizer
Posted in Evan's Debates, tagged environment, regulation, tax on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Returning to these posts and this article, I think I need to clarify and reframe my comments. First, Daniel is right that increasing the cost of carbon-based fuels will drive innovation in more fuel-efficient technologies. It did just that: in the late ’90s, Boeing pitched a fuel-wasting concept, the Sonic Cruiser. Airlines were standoffish at [...]
Response: emissions regulation and aircraft R&D
Posted in Evan's Debates, tagged competition, environment, network airlines, tax, travel, usa on December 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Update on this post is here.
Daniel Hall at Common Tragedies has responded to my request for economic analysis. I was really wondering about the effects of different types of regulation–say, a mandate for minimum fuel-efficiency standards versus an overall greenhouse gas cap or tax. He writes, “I’m skeptical there’s much room in the aircraft market [...]
Feds weighing market-based solutions to JFK snarls
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, airports, competition, delays, faa, network airlines, regulation, tax, travel, usa on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it’s been an exciting few days in the aviation policy world. I’ve been swamped with work at my day job, but I’ve been looking forward to this post for some time. Last Thursday, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters came much closer to endorsing a congestion-pricing plan for crowded airports than ever before. The next day, [...]
Congestion pricing on the table
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged air traffic control, delays, faa, regulation, tax, travel, usa on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A federal task force of aviation stakeholders is meeting to discuss ways to reduce delays in the New York area, per Transportation Secretary Mary Peters’s orders.
The talks, led by the Federal Aviation Administration, have been closed to the public, but participants report that one of the primary topics will be “congestion pricing,” a scheme [...]
Does the Dutch travel tax cost too much?
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged airports, competition, environment, europe, tax, travel on October 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Dutch government has decided to impose an additional tax on all passengers departing or arriving in the Netherlands (primarily affecting Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport and the airline that hubs there, KLM). Like Britain’s Air Passenger Duty (APD), the Dutch tax differentiates between European flights (€11.45 per segment) and longer-haul flights (€45). The levy is part [...]
Congress: Who’s to blame for airline delays? And how do we end them?
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, airports, competition, consumer advocacy, faa, labor, network airlines, regulation, safety, tax, travel, usa on September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The House Transportation Committee’s Subcommittee on Aviation held a major hearing on airline delays and consumer issues, and your humble blogger was there to pass on the highlights. The hearing came at the heels of “the worst summer for airline delays” since the Bureau of Transportation Statistics began keeping records thirteen years ago. Only 72.2 [...]
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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