AirTrav president Robert Kokonis talks with the Financial Post’s Larysa Harapyn about what the introduction of the carbon tax means for air travel in Canada and what it will mean for the cost of your fare as the rates increase in upcoming years.
The carbon tax is meant to change people’s behaviour and innovate alternatives. Harbour air is testing ev planes as we speak and will have the entire fleet ev within a year or two. No carbon tax on those flights. This is what innovation is. When things get expensive you switch
I looked into paying the carbon footprint on flying and it’s about $17 per ticket for Canada to US flights. Not sure where they got $600.
Fly out of Seattle.
And to anything that arrives by air, like Amazon parcels.
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We would get a lot less greenhouse gas if we get more planes out of the air.
Just vote out Trudeau for god's sake's people. He's coming for a plastic tax and a meat tax.
Not if we get rid of the Liberal govt in October. Making air travel unaffordable for people who fly economy while the rich continue to fly first class does nothing for the environment. Virtue signalling idiots call it 'responsible wast management' but really, it's elitism.
Business and vacation travelers will drive to US airports & fly to their destinations whenever possible. Change habits= yes. Better for the environment =nope.
The blue tsunami is sweeping across Canada . The carbon tax scam will be gone in October
The poor and middle class will be forced to walk, take a bus and lose half their $. For the rich and politicians the carbon tax is a license to pollute.
It's already super expensive to fly within Canada, Canada/US and Canada/overseas. Forget March break and summer family vacations.
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Airline travel is torture, sitting in a stuffy plane waiting to go. Fighting for your reserved seat because they oversold the plane. Overpriced I gave up and will stay at home. Cut the lousy cable tv 20 yrs ago. Don't miss it a bit
So? I’ll pay it. So will most people I know. It’s call responsible waste management. Try looking onto it sometime... CapAndTrade btw, not carbon tax.
RudyCuzzetto Golly! Rudy cites yet another PostmediaNews source. Trying to pretend it’s a different media source, Rudy? As one commenter put it, “pretty bullsh*t headline” 🙄 ONpoli MissPoli MississaugaLakeshore
There is no shield around us. Even if we could magically bring our emissions down to zero, it would only take two more months of Chinese emissions to cancel that reduction out. A carbon tax is like paying someone else to go on a diet.
Carbon tax makes zero sense to me. We should incentivize progressive environmental practices, not punish people for eating, heating their homes, getting to work.
buckle up, its gonna get alot worse than 1500$ round trip to acapulco
But not Trudeaus family vacations.
That's a pretty Bullshit headline.
to your airline tickets? what about everything you need to live like umm...FOOD!
Yeah. And gas prices rises could add $600 to your gas bill 'over time'. Time is a variable in this equation, and leaving it unspecified is unhelpful scaremongering.
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