Air Passenger Duty

Air Passenger Duty

30/08/2013 What is Air Passenger Duty ? APD is an excise duty which is due on chargeable passengers being carried from a UK airport on chargeable aircraft. From 1 April 2013 APD has been extended to apply to passengers carried on board aircraft of 5.7 tonnes or more,...

Emission Accord Grinds on Slowly

30/08/2013 Provided by flightglobal.com Global agreement on market based measures (MBM) to deal with aviation emissions cannot be reached by September when ICAO meets for its triennial assembly, according to a group of experts addressing an EBACE open session on the...

PICK OF THE MONTH: NASA asks aspiring astronauts to write poetry

30/08/2013 Science Recorder | Delila James | Among all the medical texts, rigorous background checks, qualifications requirements, and essay questions, the eight new astronauts recently chosen by NASA were also asked to write poetry. Yesterday (Aug. 20), one of the...