Aero-News: Quote of the Day

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"It's unfair. We are buying Airbus planes. If anyone is to blame for the emission problem, it should be the manufacturer not the customers."

Source: Cai Haibo, deputy secretary general of the China Air Transportation Association. As January 1 comes into view, neither side in the stand-off over a controversial new European carbon tax shows any sign of backing down. Europe's new Emissions Trading System, or ETS, would charge flights arriving in the EU's jurisdiction a fee for their carbon dioxide emissions, even for portions of the flights outside Europe. The US, China and two dozen other nations say that violates a 1944 treaty which gives all nations exclusive authority over their domestic airspace.

FMI: http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/ets/index_en.htm