European Commission presses airlines to go green

"The world of aviation could not have hoped to escape efforts being made all over the place to fight global warming", notes the editorialist Gilles Sengès. "Europe, which sometimes seems to take pleasure in penalising its champions in the face of international competition, is now giving the impression that it considers that air transport is a 'cash cow'. ... Other than the fact that all the other abundant taxes have to be added on, here and there, according to events and circumstances (security, etc.), like the one (from 1 to 40 euros, according to class and destination) imposed by Jacques Chirac on French territory and the odd other country in order to combat pandemics in the world, a sector that is so strategic in both the business world and air transport is being treated rather lightly."

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