Green Aviation

Survey of Airline Readiness for EU ETS

At this summer’s ”Airline ETS Masterclass” held on June 1 and 2 in London, a survey of airline participants was conducted during the event to assess how ready they are for the upcoming EU ETS. The survey was carried out jointly by the event organisers Green Aviation International and Price Waterhouse Cooper Advisory NV.

Here is a summary of the findings:

- Airline views are almost equally split on whether ETS will affect their competitiveness. Similarly whether they will pass on the costs of ETS on to passengers.

- Only 55% think that the EU Member States understand the airline industry’s needs.

- Surprisingly almost 90% of the airlines think that they will be ready to submit their plans by the latest deadline of 31 Aug 2009, however, many still have much work to do since only 70% are familiar with the reporting and monitoring requirements.

- Significantly 25% of airlines are concerned that they may not be able to meet the 2.5% data accuracy threshold, requirement for during the monitoring period.

So, whilst there are positive signs that this group of airlines have chosen to learn about ETS requirements and prepare, to meet the deadline to submit their plans by 31 August, 2009 there should be major concern amongst the EU and their Member States that they are simply not doing enough to assist the airline community. Moreover it could be that the data requirements are simply too difficult to deal with adequately in time, since the ETS requires significant changes to business processes, systems for some carriers.

Detailed summary available at: 

ETS_Readiness_Survey.pdf

European Union ETS

Overview

You can learn more about the European ETS in this informative overview by the European Commission in this document EU_ETS.pdf

Operator Guidelines

This document is the latest available guide to aircraft operators on how to complete their Monitoring Plans ETS_guidelines_June_2009.pdf

Monitoring Plan Templates

Here are the document templates for Monitoring Plan completion. Please note that these are not final versions and will vary by EU country, however they are extremely useful for preparation:

Tonne Kilometres - 2009_May_ETS_Draft_MP_TKM.xls
Aircraft Emissions - 2009_May_ETS_Draft_MP_AE.xls

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