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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8950

20 May 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport/development
IACA calls on ministers to abandon their draft voluntary contribution to airline passengers for funding development aid

Brussels, 19/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - In a press statement, European airline carriers declared that it was “fundamentally unacceptable to use airline passengers as a source of development funding”. Sylviane Lust, Director General of the International Air Carrier Association (IACA) considers that this involves a “discriminatory practice against passengers who choose to fly” and that “the natural ambiguity of the tax, which will be voluntary in some countries and compulsory in...

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