Originally Posted by
wawkrk
I wonder how many airlines will move the companies registered office outside the EU.
Sorry, Just noticed it's EU wide, but what does that exactly mean?
All aircraft flying through EU airspace?
Yes, all aircraft landing or taking off in EU airspace.
So imagine that Lufthansa is flying a passenger from JFK to oh, let's say Mumbai, via FRA. The
total fuel burn of the JFK-FRA flight, and the
total fuel burn of the FRA-BOM flight, will both have to be included in the ETS and Lufthansa will have to have carbon credits for them. (Note
total - not just the bit in EU airspace.)
Lufthansa (or BA, or AF,...) is competing for this passenger with e.g. Emirates routing JFK-DXB-BOM. Emirates flies JFK-DXB, over EU airspace of course, but not landing in the EU and therefore not liable for the EU ETS. So carriers routing through Europe will be commercially disadvantaged when competing for 6th-freedom connecting traffic.
(This is nothing to do with where the registered office of the airline is. If you were flying from JFK to BOM using American to Brussels and then Jet Airways to Mumbai, both of those carriers would still be liable for EU ETS obligations.)
C.