Sweden gives up a tax on flight trips six years after her introduction, since the government wants to increase the country’s commercial aviation industry.
The government overturned The 2018 guideline, which was flown on July 1 with a valid paragraph for flight tickets depending on the distance. The flip flop comes from a country that invented the Swedish term “Air -cutOr flight shame, during a pre-pandemic anti-air travel movement, which was falsified by the environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Airscham is a social crusade that discourages the flight due to its considerable environmental influences, in particular its contribution to CO2 emissions.
Since the start of the tax, Sweden has recorded a steady decline in air traffic, in particular on the country’s rural airports. In September 2024, a center-right coalition that depends on the support of right-wing extremist Swedish democrats presented a household proposal from 2025 that removed the tax.
“This will lead to lower prices for travelers and increasing demand, which increases the competitiveness of the airlines” reported From Reuters last year.
The guardian reported The move is expected to lower European flights and 325 Kronor (today $ 34.28) on those outside Europe’s ticket prices from Sweden by 80 Kronor ($ 8.44).
The state airport network Swedavia, which runs 10 of the most busy airports in Sweden, including from September 2018 to March 2019, Bloomberg, in their locations at their locations at their locations at their locations at a seven-month downward trend in the passengers in the passengers. reported. A 2019 Opinion poll The World Wildlife Fund found that 23% of Sweden was held back from travel in the air last year to reduce the effects of the climate. This number rose by 6%compared to 2017.
At the same time, the number of passengers in 2018 rose to 32 million records. The majority of the Swedes in 2018 supported air tax, the newspaper of Stockholm, Dagens Nyheter reported.
Since the distribution of the guideline in 2018, flights at Swedish airports have decreased by more than 35%, according to the aviation data company Cirium. reported by Bloomberg. Irish Airline Ryanair, which advertises cheap ticket prices, completely withdrawn from the Swedish domestic market last year.
Now the move of the Swedish political decision -makers has to revive the country’s air travel market and give airlines to the future.
“The previous aviation tax did not support the transition to reduce emissions” LinkedIn post. “With the tax-on tax, instead of funds that leave the industry, you can be used for investments in sustainable aviation fuel, new technologies and innovations that are required for the transition to CO2 emissions from NET-NULL.”
“Sustainability remains a priority for Sweden, but the focus is now on reducing emissions instead of discouraging air trips,” wrote Mattsson.
But others do not see the change in the guidelines as good news.
“The removal of the aviation tax is another example of the stupid and counterproductive policy of the government,” the spokesman for the Green Party in Sweden told Bloomberg.
