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NEWS DIGITAL

AIRCRAFT ORDERS AND

DELIVERIES CONTINUE TO

SUFFER

Aircraft deliveries in August aircraft backlog will mean up people in the UK. The industry
similarly showed the impact of to an estimated £206bn worth is looking to the Government
Commercial Aircraft orders the crisis, with just 52 deliveries of work to the UK and seven to act urgently to develop and
in 2020 continue to reflect a made, a 56% decline on the years’ worth of work. reform its quarantine policy,
challenging six months for the same month in 2018. ADS chief executive Paul using testing to reduce the
global aviation and aerospace The total backlog orders Everitt said: “The aerospace period air travellers need to
industry, with just nine orders for aircraft were at 13,518 for industry in the UK and around isolate after arrival in the UK.
in August, the lowest for the August 2020, representing a the world is feeling the effect “A full restart for aviation
month on record. further 2% decline on the same of travel restrictions and 2020 is the only way to ensure the
The figure is a 59% decline on time last year due to low order is set for the lowest number future of the UK’s highly skilled
August 2019 and a 91% decline volumes and cancellations, of global aircraft deliveries in and innovative aerospace
on two years ago. Since the and a fall from a peak of more more than a decade. sector, and will be an essential
start of the crisis in March, just than 14,300 seen at the end of “Aircraft manufacturing component of our national
123 orders have been placed. 2018. However, the remaining employs more than 110,000 economic recovery.” Q

IATA

PROPOSED ENVIRONMENT TAX

WILL DESTROY JOBS

levelled on the French aviation sector being made globally.
by COVID-19. And it will all but eliminate The world’s first global carbon
The International Air Transport the 160,000 jobs that the government is offset scheme for an economic sector
Association has warned that the trying to create with EUR 100 billion in - the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction
proposed new environmental taxes its economic re-launch plan”. Scheme for International Aviation
in France will fail to decarbonize the “In this time of crisis, we need (CORSIA) - was agreed by governments
aviation sector and lead to 150,000 coherent policies that will save jobs through the International Civil Aviation
French aviation job cuts. not policies that will destroy them,” Organization (ICAO) and applies to all
international flights.
The Convention Citoyenne pour le said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA director
“If France imposes this debilitating
Climat (CCC) - a citizens’ body created general and CEO. unilateral national tax it could jeopardize
under President Macron - is proposing The aviation industry has global com- CORSIA, an international scheme that
a series of measures to curb aviation mitments to decarbonize. From 2021 the will mitigate a billion tonnes of carbon
emissions, including an eco-tax on sector is committed to carbon-neutral emissions. The net environmental
tickets issued in France, to raise 4.2 growth and airlines globally are working impact of the CCC proposal will be
billion euros annually. to cut the sector’s net carbon footprint horrendous if doing so gives large
France already imposes some of the to half of 2005 levels by 2050. emitters or developing nations an excuse
heaviest aviation taxes in Europe. Additionally, airlines are subject to the not to support CORSIA,” said de Juniac.
The French Civil Aviation Authority European emissions trading scheme for In normal times, the French aviation
(DGAC) estimates that if implemented intra-European operations. industry supports about 1.1 million
the CCC proposal would lead to 150,000 “Aviation is a leader in decarbonizing - jobs and contributes more than EUR
job losses and cost the French economy the first to deliver against global sectoral 100 billion, or about 4.3% of national
EUR 5-6 billion in lost GDP. emissions commitments despite being GDP. The onset of COVID-19 has seen
Against those economic costs, the heavily carbon dependent. If the CCC passenger numbers in France plunge
measures would reduce emissions by 3.5 are really serious about decarbonizing 80% since March, while airline revenues
million tonnes a year, which is less than aviation, it should provide the sector have fallen an estimated EUR 15 billion,
1% of France’s total emissions. with support to achieve its green putting about 466,000 jobs at risk,
“This proposal cannot be taken roadmap,” said de Juniac. according to IATA analysis.
seriously. It is not the time to add EUR IATA also warned that a unilateral ap- France will this year lose its position as
6 billion and 150,000 lost jobs to the proach to reducing aviation’s emissions the world’s ninth biggest travel market.
economic destruction already being could compromise the progress that is Q

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