Carrivick departs BAR with government bashing
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Ex-chief executive of BAR UK Mike Carrivick left the organisation with strong words against APD and airport expansion last week.
In his parting address Carrivick laid out the challenges faced by airlines and criticised the UK and EU government for delays.
“We have seen so much prevarication and delay, that it makes the performances of ‘Yes Minister’ look like a class act,” he said. “A third runway at Heathrow is vital regardless of the ultimate decision about any new hub airport site. Looking back to this decade, future generations will shake their heads in disbelief that policy decision making took so long and the UK lost so much as a result.”
He called on the increase in APD in April to be scrapped and also criticised the EU for the ETS and new regulations places on airlines.
“Forcing airlines to become insurers of last resort for any manner of events completely outside their control is not in the public interest or affordable by the industry. The regulatory authorities must undertake the responsibility to produce a revised regulation that meets the original objectives, but which takes away the patently unfair financial imposition which no other form of transport has to endure,” he added.