The passenger air travel has a bad eco-balance. Now the airline industry in Germany wants to do something about it, and the fly is less harmful to the environment to make. The sky over Germany in green?
In the climate debate and the discussion about flying, the aviation industry wants to submit a report of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, according to a private climate package. “We want to ensure that the air traffic-related CO2 emissions to zero,” – quoted by the newspaper from a statement by the Presidium of the Federal Association of the German air traffic economy (BDL).
Therefore want to engage the companies in the industry for the promotion of Alternatives to conventional kerosene, but an industrial policy Initiative of the EU and its member States was necessary.
Wind as a propulsion source
So, for example, excess wind could be power with the “Power to Liquid”process for the production of fuel used. In a on Friday in Berlin, disseminated the statement, the companies involved were willing to participate in pilot projects.
In BDL, among other things, the airport operator Fraport AG and the Berlin-Brandenburg airport, and the airlines, Condor flugdienst, Lufthansa and Tuifly are organized.
Should be what comes out the back, eventually nothing other than pure, clean air?
Not in one country alone
The Association also calls for the German air traffic tax for the promotion of renewable fuels. So far, the BDL had always been for the abolition of the so-called ticket tax was used, introduced by the Federal government in the past year, around 1.2 billion euros. Single Manager, such as Lufthansa-Chef Carsten Spohr or Stefan Schulte, the chief of the Frankfurt airport, had abandoned this Position in the past few months.
The BDL makes further proposals: the passport should be offered to passengers during the booking process easier for CO2-compensation. Also, the European air space had to be unified, to avoid climate-damaging detours of the aircraft.
They were ready, and the intra-German flight set routes, if with a well-developed railway connection, the so-called intermodal transport will be possible.
The airlines have invested in new, more efficient aircraft and participated in international programmes for emissions trading. Alone around the introduction of a CO2 pricing, the BDL rejects but still.
dk/bea (dpa, afp)