The problem as I see it has nothing to do with emmisions. The TAX is just another way to milk the public. How else will we pay for Blair's adventures in Iraq and Afganistan? The beauty is that the EU is doing Robber Brown's dirty work.
Let's face it we don't have a manufacturing base in the UK. Blair knows air transport is a service economy. It can change a local region from a basket case to an economic success. I once read LHR contibutes 11% of the UK's GDP. Also jobs (skilled and unskilled) are plentiful.
What I'm interested in is how airlines could aviod the Tax. Tanking in fuel from outside the EU?
I agree with the earlier poster(or was it EJ) who said a common ATC for europe is the way forward. Why do I have to go to German Corner? I think we could learn alot from our cousins in the US were ATC is excellent
