As part of the European Council Presidency, France invited to an aviation summit on Friday. The so-called "Toulouse Declaration" was passed and politicians, airlines, manufacturers and airlines spoke out in favor of climate targets.

 Vienna Airport has also signed the declaration - Vienna Airport has been pursuing a consistent sustainability strategy for many years and will be running its airport operations CO2023-neutral as early as 2.

“Aviation has been taking comprehensive climate protection measures for many years and is also pulling together internationally. With the "Toulouse Declaration", the European aviation industry has committed itself to decarbonising air traffic by 2050. Vienna Airport is already well on the way here: With Austria's largest PV system, CO2-neutral district heating and numerous other measures, Vienna Airport will be completely CO2023-neutral in 2. However, the most important lever for climate-friendly flying is alternative fuels,” say Flughafen Wien board members Julian Jäger and Günther Ofner.

“However, the Fit for 55 package presented by the EU Commission will lead to enormous additional and multiple burdens,” emphasizes Günther Ofner. “In addition, the planned introduction of a kerosene tax threatens, in addition to the competitive disadvantage compared to third countries, above all the problem known as “carbon leakage”. This means that flights to third countries are avoided due to the tax advantage and thus the CO2 emissions are shifted, but not reduced. This harms our business location, but does not help the climate,” says Ofner. Julian Jäger adds: “We want to work constructively on the sustainable transformation of aviation. I therefore see the proposal for a mandatory admixture quota for alternative fuels as positive and much more useful in terms of reducing emissions.”