Jet fuel rationing becomes a reality

[fiftyfour]

We don't need to worry about this. The EU will implode before then. It is not democratic, and ridled with sleeze and ineficiency. The EU accounts have not been signed off by the auditor for over 15 years now. Fortunately the Irish have had the guts to say they have had enough. It's only a matter of time before it unravels in spectacular style. Italy for example is bankrupt and living on funny money.

[layinlow]

And to think we have come to this over a global warming hoax. 250 leading scientists signed a concensus over global arming, 31000 said it is a hoax.

[Dan Winterland]

More Eurobollox. Glad I moved to Asia.

[BALLSOUT]

Ryanair are probably best placed for this one as they had mostly old 200's in those days, now all new 800's

[Asdrius]

Hello,

I decided to look through European Parlament documents regarding this issue and also found this text in DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION:

However, none of these estimates takes into account the highly uncertain cirrus cloud effects. In accordance with Article 174(2) of the Treaty, Community environment policy must be based on the precautionary principle and therefore all impacts of aviation should be addressed to the extent possible. Air traffic management authorities should apply effective measures in order to avoid the formation of contrails and cirrus clouds through changes in flight patterns, namely by ensuring that flights avoid passing through areas where due to specific atmospheric conditions the formation of such clouds is likely. In addition, they should strongly promote research on the formation of contrails and cirrus clouds including effective mitigation measures (for instance in relation to fuel, engines and air traffic management) that do not adversely affect other environmental goals.

Those Euro politicians also wants to fight against contrails? Aren't there more important problems in Europe nowadays?
Althought it is written that the effect is highly uncertain they already want to apply measures because of precautionary principle? I think with such logic a lot of more strange, uncertain decisions can be made by EU parlament.

[ChristiaanJ]

Contrails reflect sunlight, so they contribute to global cooling. Not much, but not totally negligeable. Similar to volcanic ash and other particulates in the upper atmosphere (think of Pinatubo).

"Air traffic management authorities should apply effective measures in order to avoid the formation of contrails..." yeah right. Somebody might do some more studies on the subject, and discover their scam.

[chippy63]

I may well be wrong, but I thought that international air travel was governed by treaties which must be agreed by both sides. The US, I recall, is protesting some of this stuff, and is threatening legal action.
Obviously, intra-EU flights can be legislated by our[I]soi-disant [I] masters.
This carbon trading market is shaping up to be a great market for the wide boys, incidentally.