News: Easyjet steps up green tax campaign

Flights > News > # 1482 (24/09/2007)

Easyjet is stepping up its campaign to get air passenger duty replaced by a fairer green tax.
The no-frills airline plans to put stickers on the backs of seats in all of its aircraft to get its message across. Easyjet claims the current system is "skyway robbery" and wants a tax levied on planes, not passengers.
Boss Andy Harrison wants a system similar to car tax, with the heaviest polluters paying more. He believe passengers who use airlines such as Easyjet, which operate some of the most fuel-efficient planes available, are being unfairly penalised because they pay the same tax as those flying on more polluting aircraft used by other carriers.
Harrison said: "It is engines, not passengers, that cause pollution.”

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