Only charter ops (i.e got a valid AOC) that fall under 243 flights in a consecutive four month period OR under 10,000 tons of Co2 will be excempt.
As I read it, on-demand charter ops won't qualify for the exemption. Only scheduled airlines operating between defined city-pairs can fit that one.
Eurocontrol have said they will have something in September which will be used for the monitoring.
Haven't they noticed it's already halfway through September? Can I borrow their calender when it gets to tax paying time?
On the upside, I heard this week from one of the fuel card companies that they have found their way onto the official list of operators.........never having owned, or operated, any aircraft is, apparently, no bar to being persecuted!
They have also targeted operators of B200s that are actually under the weight limit.......the Eurocontrol database was designed for a different purpose where weights are rounded up. So far nobody at the DTI has been able to grasp this argument.