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British Airways
and Climate Change
Below are extracts of letters between
the airline company
British Airways and Peter Shullot about
climate change. The letters in full are at the bottom of the page. This is one
of 65 sets of letters so you can find out what your supermarket, energy supplier
and car manufacturer, and oil companies, airlines, house builders and other
companies really think about climate change. The name Peter Shullot is
made up – it is an anagram of The Polluters.
To
Willie Walsh, Chief Executive of British Airways –
Well done on being airline of the year for the fifth time. As a frequent flier
traveling with my friends to the playgrounds of the world – Bangkok, Jamaica,
Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro and Tehran – I know that this is fully deserved.
I’m concerned about the battering the aviation industry is taking because of
climate change. The government says that by 2020 25% of the UK contribution to
climate change will be from flying. But the aviation industry says it’s only
responsible for 1.6%. So the government is using the issue to penalise the
industry by continually increasing Airline Passenger Duty (APD), which is just a
lazy way for the government to raise revenue without affecting the issue it is
meant to address. For the aviation industry APD is Another Profit Deterrent.
It’s just an invention of the green militants. They’d urged us to boycott France
(about nuclear testing), Barclays (over South Africa), Chile (Pinochet), Germany
(because East and West Germany is now united) and Esso (about everything). They
all failed so now the greens need a new cause.
British Airways replied –
Thank you for your comments about climate and the aviation industry. Your
opinions are invaluable.
I’m delighted you have been happy with the service on our flights in the past,
and I hope you continue to choose British Airways in the future.
Letter to British Airways
Reply from British Airways
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