Top European low-cost airlines slam EU’s exemption for long-haul non-CO2 emissions reports

easyJet, Ryanair, and Wizz Air have collectively criticised the European Union’s (EU) new draft proposal a day after the proposal’s publication on June 18. The draft plans have proposed that international flights departing or landing in Europe from non-European countries will be excluded from reporting for at least two years. The parties deemed the exemption “misguided, unscientific, and flawed.” The three carriers argued in a statement: “The bottom line is that we absolutely cannot end up with a blank dataset for the entire extra-EEA portion of European aviation – this outcome would be both counterproductive and detrimental to climate action.”