These tax incentives could allow airlines to renew their fleets with less polluting machines.
Airlines should benefit from ascrapping bonusto encourage the purchase of new planes, with less harmful climate balance, pleads the leader of the main professional organization of the sector in France in the Sunday newspaper . “The energy transition is possible. Technical solutions exist. A very important lever is the renewal of aircraft“, underlines Pascal de Izaguirre, president of the National Federation of aviation and its trades (Fnam) and CEO of the company Corsair. “We are asking for tax incentive systems to speed up the purchase of new appliances. There are scrapping bonuses in other sectors. We would like a similar device for our fleets“, he pleads in an interview.
Aviation accounts for between 2 and 3% of global CO2 emissions, the main greenhouse gas, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a UN agency.
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Pascal de Izaguirre also considers that green fuels represent the “main leverto decarbonize the sector but regrets that “to date, there is no French production sector and therefore no non-fossil fuel available“. “Fnam asks the State to set up a biofuel sector committee, with its various players, including energy companies“, he pleads. “A support mechanism for the purchase of kerosene from biomass must be put in place, as exists for example in the United States“says the manager.