The other day I was replying to a comment with regard to fuel levies built into air ticket prices and is used by airlines more of an insurance against aviation fuel rising in costs. This is not only an airline tactic to help booster profits, but also a courier/transporting company's preferred mode of eeking out extra profit. This is normally around an extra 5% to your airline ticket price or your delivery cost already built into the final price. If the fuel does not go up or better still decreases in price then they just earn more money.
This evening I was going to go more in depth into this and stumbled upon something far more sinister being International Aviation Levies. This is along similar lines of a fuel tax/carbon tax the United Nations wants to control by seeking to earn their own revenue. The climate activists and UN have apparently been planning an aviation levy for years and this will highlight another reason for pushing the digital identification. The reasons are never good and wait until you see what is being proposed. The funny thing is we should already know about these ideas and not have to stumble across them by chance
The idea is to launch a modular ticket levy for anyone flying internationally using a purchasing tax. If you fly economy this would be between $10 and $20, premium class seats would be between $20 and $120. These rates would vary for the length of the flight and also dependent on what green fuel is being used.
The interesting part is when you have flown 3 times in a calendar year which when you break it down could be a return international flight and another flight before the return flight is now levied with an additional $50 cost levy. If you book with different airlines how are they going to know how many flights you have flown unless there are Digital ID's connected to a database.
The UN has estimated this would generate an extra $50-$300 billion per year and is more likely to be around $100 million in the beginning. The problem with this proposal is this is going to create revenue, but does not reduce carbon emissions. In theory if this is agreed upon and you fly frequently you could be paying an extra $140 per return ticket whilst sitting in economy.
This does not end there as the airlines will pay an additional levy on fuel starting at $0.17c per liter rising up to $0.50c over the next few decades. This will raise an additional $20 billion to the UN coffers. Private jets will also pay extra levies, but the dollar value raised is unknown. This is absurd as any extra costs just raise ticket prices and is not being funded out of thin air.
Aviation jobs worldwide including the tourist industry reliant on tourists flying is estimated in the region of 86 million jobs. 60 percent of tourists fly and a third of global trade by dollar value is air cargo. These International Aviation Levies are bad news all round as the cheap seats just became a hell of a lot pricier. Those who fly abroad 2 or 3 times a year grabbing a bargain flight will not be possible if this becomes the new normal.
The crazy part is how this is taxed because those in the premium seats are paying more even though you are still on the same flight. This is just another money grab initiated by the United Nations under the pretense of climate control. Throw in their shipping tax expected to raise $40-60 billion per year and this aviation tax of anywhere between $159-$200 billion and you have a total of $250 billion plus plundered illegally from the consumers. This is not what the UN was intended for because where is this money going considering the UN works on donations from member countries to the tune of $66 billion. How bad will the UN be with 4 x that amount of money? This would be funding NGO's dictating whatever they have planned globally.
This is just the start and why this cannot be allowed to happen all in the name of "climate change" which I call BS and is smoke screen to fund whatever woke projects need funding and is nothing more than control mechanisms.