Porrohman you seem to be under the miss apprehension [sic] that if something is put in a white paper it actually happens.
... should be amended to ...
Porrohman you seem to be under misapprehension. FULL STOP
That misapprehension must be a requirement to be in the SNP's 'Goebels department'! (Oops, sorry, 'information bureau'!!)
The APD pronouncements have been the only bit of common sense from that lot, but simply because that would be common sense everywhere in the UK. The 'zero' or pretty close to 'zero' levels in the Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland have hardly switched large volumes of air traffic in those directions so I can't see it having any really significant impact. And how will such a pro-airline concept really fit in in the long term with the Scot Nats' avowed 'greenie' image (
vide the vandalism of their beautiful countryside with those atrocious wastes of space and money called 'wind farms'!) when airlines are so vilified by the 'greenies'? Once the initial excitement is over, watch them resort to 'type' and try to tax airlines out of existence! (After all, 'jocks' going to the med on holiday will be taking cash out of the local economy and that sort of thing will need to be 'socially engineered' out!)