Sky Wars 2012 – 29 April 2012, Business World

Consider this. An Indian tourist, flying in a European Union (EU) built aircraft of an EU airline to spend euros in the EU will end up paying carbon tax to the EU even for the portion of the flight that falls in non-EU airspace. That sounds unfair,” says Amber Dubey, KPMG’s director-aviation. On 1 January 2012, the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) for the aviation industry came into effect — not just for EU carriers but for all airlines flying into the bloc.