France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall

Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by Freak_NL on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:38PM (#20393644)

Also, expect more European countries to follow. The Dutch government is intent on doing this too; either on their own, or (preferably) on a European scale.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:44PM (#20393722)

I doubt they would do it on their own, many of the trips via schiphol don’t have Dutch endpoints, which is Europe’s biggest hub.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by tluyben2 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:56PM (#20393904)

If it is only NL and France, it will just bankrupt KLM/AirFrance. It needs to be EU wide imho.

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Re:France to tax flights from its airports, airline shares fall by kgwgk on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:13PM (#20394155)

How does it being EU-wide help KLM/AirFrance? It's not like people is going to take flights out of London or Berlin instead of Paris or Amsterdam to avoid the tax.

Or maybe you mean that if it's only NL and France it will just bankrupt KLM/AirFrance while it is's EU-wide it will bankrupt them all.

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