ELFAA condemns UK Government’s further smash and grab on air passengers

30-Oct-2009 On the eve of the entry into force of the UK’s greatly increased Air Passenger Duty (APD), the European Low Fares Airline Association (ELFAA) urges the UK Government to withdraw the swingeing increases to APD, which take effect from 1 November 2009.

“It is widely recognised that aviation has a critical role to play in getting the European economies up and running once again”, said ELFAA Secretary-General John Hanlon. “Increasing this already unfair tax on one of the UK’s key industries is akin to biting the hand that feeds it. The reneging on the undertaking in the 2008 Pre-Budget Report to reform this unashamed tax take on individual citizens and base it instead on actual emissions per flight compounds the injustice.”