Tories To Tax Air Travel

England’s Tory party has announced plans to add a “conservation tax” to replaced duties on flights with new per flight taxes based on the flight’s carbon emissions.

The new taxes are not supposed to increase costs for the occasional flier, but rather to put pressure on frequent travelers to fly less. Particularly those who flier overseas several times a year for vacations. The more one flies, the more the new taxes will come into effect.

This is potentially good news for environmentalist, bad news for business travelers in the US. If the measure gains support in the UK, it is likely to gain support in the US.