Given the land border I think the additional €17/€18 added for an 'environmental tax' to flights leaving from Belfast is extremely detrimental to maintaining the air travel industry in NI.
Especially when you consider that a lot of the monies being gathered up so enthusiastically into Treasury in London were partly handed over sharpish to bail out ROI not so long ago, enabling them to turn the air tax issue against NI, rather than having to actually increase taxes to address the financial problem they had created for themselves!
Still - stiff upper lip, old chap!!
