Airlines
Initiative wants to use climate protection means for aviation
While the air traffic has recovered from Corona pandemic in many places, Germany lags behind. Associations are calling for fewer government costs – and aims at the federal debt package.
An alliance of 14 associations and unions demands relief for air traffic from the new federal government – and brings the planned federal financial package into play. “The aviation location Germany has become too expensive,” says a joint appeal that is available to the German Press Agency. “Without determined measures, the industry threatens to lose competitiveness and thus weaken the connection of Germany as a business location to international markets.”
Special funds for promoting sustainable kerosene?
Behind the letter are the Federal Association of German Air Traffic Management (BDL), the Federal Association of German Industry, IG Metall, the Airport Association ADV and tourism associations. They call eight measures to strengthen the air traffic location, above all a relief for state location costs and the support of future technologies.
For example, the letter should be used for the promotion of sustainable flight fuels and for further research and technology promotion funds, according to the letter. Union, the SPD and Greens had agreed that 100 billion euros flow from the planned new debt for infrastructure and climate protection into the climate and transformation fund (KTF).
According to the will of the initiative, the air traffic tax should also be abolished or at least to the level of 2011, bureaucracy is shrinking and further funding flow into national aviation research. The “hydrogen ecosystem” for new aircraft drives should be expanded from production to transport to refueling systems.
“Need new drives for transformation of aviation”
“If we want to reach the climate goals, we have to invest in innovative technologies instead of burdening the industry with additional costs,” said BDL President Jens Bischof. “We need affordable sustainable fuels and new drives to actively shape the transformation of aviation.”
The air traffic industry sees state taxes and fees as the main reason that air traffic in Germany is slowly recovering from the Corona crisis in European comparison.
dpa
Source: Stern
