EasyJet has welcomed the government’s decision to delay any rise in Air Passenger Duty for a year and to tax passengers on private jets as a “step in the right direction”.
But easyJet chief executive Carolyn McCall criticised the government’s decision to continue to omit transfer passengers from APD.
Commenting on today’s Budget speech, she said: “The continued omission of transfer passengers from APD undermines what the Coalition promised to achieve by replacing it with a fairer, greener per plane tax. By removing this subsidy to foreign transfer passengers, four out of five British travellers would be better off.”
She added: “easyJet supports the government’s desire to be the ‘greenest government ever’ and will continue to campaign in favour of a fundamental review of APD.”
EasyJet has supported Abta’s Fair Tax on Flying campaign but says it does not go far enough on green issues.