Prompted by the NATS staff newspaper I have looked today at the CAA response to the SES chrging proposals. It is a well thought out position paper BUT there is no mention whatsoever of General Aviation and the likely impact of the proposals as posed by EUROCONTROL on our side of aviation.
A side on which the airlines depend for their future supply of pilots but one that has no way of reclaiming the added cost of the charges proposed other than by digging deep into taxed income or by increasing the astronomic hourly charge of hiring a club aircraft.
What a dreadful comment that the CAA cannot even mention the impact on us - merely the airlines who enjoy so many advantages in taxation and the low duty on Avtur.
I would just love to be wrong here but I do not think I am.
If you want to make a resonse then the email address is -
[email protected]
or
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I will refrain from any jest on these two, no doubt excellent, ladies who are to field your blitzkreig.
Cheers,
Trapper 69
