Reported on another forum-Air Asia cancels flights from LGW from March 31st 2012. One of the reasons given is the implementation of the Emissions Trading Scheme along with the high Air Passenger Duty tax in this country, how many more will follow? Well done EU
It actually says Air Asia suspends all flights to London, Paris and India. You may wish to point out how the ETS will impact a KUL-DEL route, or how the UK APD impacts KUL-ORY. Just saying, that maybe airlines have spindoctors too, and that blaming APD or ETS sounds a hell of a lot better than saying "we've been idiots, thinking we could compete with the likes of Emirates or Singapore Airlines, offering a ow-quality product at not much less than a full-service fare".
But if any new tax did have a small influence, one wonders if it might have been the 2EUR ETS fee, or the 50/100UKP APD fee. Well done UK would, perhaps, have been a more fitting end to your rant?