Call for Aviation Tax to Be Devolved

Evening Times › June 17, 2011

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SCOTLAND'S biggest airport group has thrown its weight behind calls to devolve responsibility for aviation tax in order to promote business travel and tourism.

BAA, which owns Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen airports, warned that recent increases in air passenger duty (APD) had cost pound(s)77million in lost tourism in Scotland and that more hikes would further hinder aviation's recovery.

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Call for Aviation Tax to Be Devolved

Its intervention coincided with a clamour from air...

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