A4E to lobby for removal of all ‘unreasonable’ taxes on aviation
The airline industry is taking Italy and Norway to task for introducing new passenger taxes that it says will hurt visitor numbers. At the association’s official launch event in Amsterdam at the end of last week, A4E said that what it described as “unreasonable taxes” had been proven to suppress demand and were “bad for passengers and bad for the economy.” It said that one of the key issues on which all 5 founding member airline groups were agreed was vigorous opposition against such taxes. A4E pointed out that, in the Netherlands, the Dutch govt had withdrawn a ticket tax in 2009 because of the negative impact it had on passenger numbers. Following the removal of the tax, “passenger numbers bounced back,” A4E said. EasyJet CE Carolyn McCall said: “What taxation does is it suppresses demand and there is ample evidence of that."<br/>
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A4E to lobby for removal of all ‘unreasonable’ taxes on aviation
The airline industry is taking Italy and Norway to task for introducing new passenger taxes that it says will hurt visitor numbers. At the association’s official launch event in Amsterdam at the end of last week, A4E said that what it described as “unreasonable taxes” had been proven to suppress demand and were “bad for passengers and bad for the economy.” It said that one of the key issues on which all 5 founding member airline groups were agreed was vigorous opposition against such taxes. A4E pointed out that, in the Netherlands, the Dutch govt had withdrawn a ticket tax in 2009 because of the negative impact it had on passenger numbers. Following the removal of the tax, “passenger numbers bounced back,” A4E said. EasyJet CE Carolyn McCall said: “What taxation does is it suppresses demand and there is ample evidence of that."<br/>
