Europe is now regulating the amount of Emissions that is put into their air, not only by ground vehicles of transportation but now aircraft's. Europe is going to charge the aircraft by the amount emissions the aircraft puts off into the atmosphere. The United States are feuding this with Europe saying that such a thing is outrages, especially with how how much they are charging and the fact that it doesn't have to be emitted in Europe to get charged for it. The United States is in the process of passing a bill which will prohibit air transportation through Europe.
Europe is starting to charge airlines for the emissions they produce into the atmosphere. The United States does not like this because Europe states that the emissions are tracked from when they depart in the States, and when they arrive at Europe that all the emission from that flight are charged and payed to Europe. The big conflict is that 80% of that flight was done in the United States, and International waters, so why should they have to pay them for that. Along with the United States, other countries are also outraged, and some have shown sign's to also retaliate this if changes are not being made. Europe is putting a big risk to their countries with this new scheme, especially when the income from this scheme goes to the government to be distributed to the governments favor, which could have nothing to do with making the atmosphere better.
If the air carriers have to participate in this scheme, not only do I believe Europe has gone mad for purposing this but it would only be exceptional under one condition. If Europe only charged the carriers for their emission for the time they travel over Europe instead of the flights entire leg, weather it was not in Europe or it was. This would make a lot more sense considering it is not trying to profit on things outside of there country. Currently with the way things are heading the United States should pass this bill and not participate with Europe's scheme. Europe's money they receive from the emissions isn't even going back into helping the environment, the money goes into a fund were the European government can distribute the way they want. The United States can do just fine without using Europe in their flight paths, and would be a good decision in my opinion for the united states to say clear of Europe and its scheme.
It really doesn't make a lot of sense for EU to tax U.S. air carriers for the entire leg or duration of flights. I think most people; especially in the U.S. do realize that the EU's ETS is unfair and possibly illegal. The U.S. government must reach a quick and wise decision regarding such scheme, but I don't think that taking a decision as far as not conducting flights into/through Europe is a wise decision, because U.S. air carriers ought to be more competitive in the international aviation business arena!
ReplyDeleteWhile your link has some interesting information such as the Chicago Convention and it's application in this situation, you don't discuss it. The information is this post is mainly information from our class discussion.
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ReplyDeleteI don't think airlines can cut Europe out of there flight paths. Europe has some very desirable travel and tourist destinations. I think it would cut out a large portion of their profits. That would also give many European carriers the upper hand on a distinct travel market. Business wise I think that would be a bad decision as much as I would like us to be able to stick it to Europe for such a crazy move.
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