SEI Report- Aviation & Sustainability

[Wetzel Dave]

Dear John and Howard

I was very interested to read the Summary Recommendations of your SEI report
- Aviation & Sustainability.
I fully support your objective to reduce environmental pollution from air
travel.

Have you considered the auctioning of landing slots at airports as an
environmental tool?

This would generate revenue for the public realm and encourage airlines to
rethink their use of the skies.

Currently, the value of these slots sits in the airlines balance sheets as
an asset for which they have paid nothing.
(In February this year QUANTAS purchased 2 slots at London Heathrow from
another airline for £20m, and there is a landing slot every two minutes).

I used to work for BEA (now part of British Airways). The company initials
stood for "British European Airways" but with so many flights in and out (I
used to roster pilots to Brussels in the morning and Paris in the afternoon)
we joked that the initials BEA stood for "Back Every Afternoon".

Consequently, BA has inherited (on grandfather/mother rights) hundreds of
these highly valuable slots.
A landing slot consists of permission to fly through the air in a particular
place at a specific time.

As no airline has created air, time and space - the key components of a
landing slot, these slots should belong to all of us and could easily be
auctioned by Government on the basis of a 5 year permit for each slot. At
the end of the 5 years a fresh auction would be held.

This process would be similar to Gordon Brown auctioning a part of the
spectrum for 3G mobile phone licences three years ago. The permit was for 20
years and raised £22.4bn. In 17 years time we can all have another bight of
the cherry!






Dave
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Whitelegg [mailto:John.Whitelegg at phonecoop.coop]
Sent: Sunday, 4 July 2004 20:06
 I thought you would like to see this.  The report is published on 5th July
 2004.

 It has already received a great deal of media attention eg:

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3864099.stm

  The Stockholm Environment Institute is pleased to announce the launch of
  a new report entitled "Aviation and Sustainability" by John Whitelegg
  and Howard Cambridge. The report sets out a model for international
  aviation policy  aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other
  impacts expected as a result of the massive growth in demand for air
  transport.

  <http://www.sei.se/aviation/index.html

  Please find attached a press release in PDF and rtf format. The
  executive summary and full report are available on the SEI website at
  the following address:

  http://www.sei.se/aviation/index.html

  We look forward to hearing your comments and we are happy respond to any
  questions regarding the report..

  Yours sincerely

  John Whitelegg and Howard Cambridge

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  Stockholm Environment Institute
  Biology Department
  University of York
  York, UK

  Tel:   +44 (0)1904 432897

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  with its headquarters is in Stockholm (Sweden) and it has research
centres
  at the University of York (UK), Boston (USA), Tallinn (Estonia) and
 Bangkok.
  It has a strong interest in contributing to the development of policy
  through the communication of policy relevant science directly to policy
  makers.






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