Flying to London? Shell out 25 dollars extra for green seat

Mumbai: Passengers flying from India to any airport in the European Union (EU) including London's Heathrow Airport, may have to shell out an additional carbon emission surcharge of roughly $25 dollars on their air tickets from January 1, 2012, according to well-informed sources.
"Airline companies will have to pay up, and they are expected to collect this amount from passengers. Each airline will have to pay according to its carbon dioxide emission levels, while airlines themselves can be expected to charge passengers a surcharge of around $25 per seat.
Emissions of passenger aircrafts and per passenger kilometres vary with variables like aircraft size, number of passengers, altitude and distance of the journey. So an airline emitting more carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases would probably charge passengers more," says Vishwajit Dahanukar, managing director of Managing Emissions Pvt. Ltd., a carbon credit trading company.
It's not merely Indian airline companies that will be affected, because the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) legislation will force all airlines flying to, through, or from the EU, to pay for permits for all carbon dioxide tonnes that they emit from 2012.
28/11/10 Bobby Anthony/MiD DAY

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