Like the post-war period set in the number of passengers between the EU and many other destinations are abandoned and thus prices. But pending EU taxation and increase the UK tax will make significantly more expensive trips within just a few weeks. Airlines will Jack up the price under the cover of tax increase?
Robert Malina, lead author of a paper published in the journal of air transportation management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says that u.s.-based airlines could go with sliding as much as USD2, 600 million in the next ten years by marking up the emission costs beyond what is strictly necessary to cover the costs.
It may have a point: this is another scheme which will be costly to manage and make sense to hypothecate those additional costs to the extra cost which they relate. Even so, the number seems high, particularly as the fuel surcharge is already usual in flight by the airline destinations EU US.
However, compared to the fuel surcharge that is added by the European Union and Asia airlines, United States companies have adopted the approach of the foot-in-the water with only USD6 added on fares home. Some consider that this figure will remain low. But EU airlines has been adding the same amount, for the time being.
Emissions scheme should encourage airlines to become more fuel efficient and additional trade benefits if they exceed a cap on their emissions.