Originally Posted by
GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU
Apologies in advance for drifting several dots off Thread but is there ever any pressure to "tanker" fuel from low cost sources to high cost ones?
The UK and, for that matter, European tree huggers seem hell bent on changing the Duty and Tax rules on AVTUR. If this comes about, it would become cheaper to refuel in, say, Casablanca than it would in UK. Would this encourage the carriage of max fuel loads from the low cost regions. I wouldn't see this becoming a safety matter but more a false carbon dioxide/oil reserves economy by the environmentalists. Is that scenario a possibility?
Yes.
Wouldn't call it "pressure" though. More like "encouragement". And operators of all sizes have been doing it for many years, so definitively not an environmental advantage.