Some interesting figures have emerged about the effect of the new flight tax in the Netherlands. Introduced on 1 July 2008, supposedly to counter the CO2 impact of Dutch aviation (though of course not a cent goes towards environmental action) the tax added between 11 and 45 Euros to the cost of an air ticket. [...]

It is not often that I praise the UK Government’s stance on aviation and the environment. This is a government that collects over 2 billion pounds a year from Air Passenger Duty, ostensibly for environmental reasons but puts none of the revenue back into the environment. And it ignores the fact that the tax does [...]