Chitchat Higher Prices for Flights out of Singapore to ensure use of "Sustainable Fuel"

[Pinkieslut]

Higher airfares for travellers departing Singapore from 2026, with new levy to ensure flights use sustainable fuel​

CAAS estimates additional fees ranging from $3 to $16 for economy-class flights, with business class and first class paying more​

Staff Writer
·Editorial team
Mon, 19 February 2024 at 3:59 am GMT

A Singapore Airlines aircraft at Singapore's Changi Airport Terminal 3. (PHOTO: Xinhua/Then Chih Wey via Getty Images)
SINGAPORE — Travellers flying out of Singapore will have to fork out more for their airfares from 2026. This is due to a new levy that the Singapore government will impose to ensure flights departing from the city-state use sustainable aviation fuel.
The Straits Times (ST) reported on Monday (19 February) that while specific details still need to be finalised, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) estimates a possible $3 levy for short-haul economy-class flights, such as those to Bangkok.
The levy for medium-haul flights to Tokyo and long-haul flights to London are estimated to be $6 and $16 respectively. The levy will also differ based on the class of travel, with business class and first class paying more.
The estimates are based on a national target that Singapore has set for sustainable aviation fuel to constitute 1 per cent of all jet fuel used at Changi Airport and Seletar Airport in 2026. The eventual goal is to reach 3 per cent to 5 per cent sustainable fuel use by 2030.
ST reported that the money collected from the passenger levy will go towards the bulk purchase of sustainable aviation fuel for airlines. Sustainable fuel is primarily made from waste materials such as used cooking oil and can be up to five times more expensive than conventional fuel.
CAAS said that finalised details will be announced nearer the date of implementation in 2025.

Aiming for net-zero emissions​

This new levy is part of Singapore’s sustainable air hub blueprint that was developed by CAAS and launched by Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat on Monday at the second Changi Aviation Summit, reported The Straits Times.
The blueprint outlines 12 initiatives for the city-state to tackle aviation emissions, with the objective of reducing carbon emissions from airport operations to 326 kilotonnes per year in 2030. This is 20 per cent lower than the carbon emission levels in 2019.
By 2050, Singapore aims to reach net-zero domestic emissions from its airports and net-zero international emissions from its carriers. This goal excludes future developments such as Terminal 5, as they will have their own separate emission targets.
According to CAAS, Singapore will be the first country in the world to introduce a levy to meet its sustainable aviation fuel goals. This means that the additional costs that travellers have to pay will be fixed and will not be subject to the volatility of sustainable fuel prices.
Other initiatives under the sustainable air hub blueprint include deploying more solar panels at airports, improving air traffic management to reduce fuel burn, and using cleaner energy for vehicles at airports.

 

[laksaboy]

This is what happens when the PAP regime is fully on board with the globalist anti-carbon cult.

Temasek and BlackRock Launch Decarbonization Investment Partnership​

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[JohnTan]

Higher airfares for travellers departing Singapore from 2026, with new levy to ensure flights use sustainable fuel​

CAAS estimates additional fees ranging from $3 to $16 for economy-class flights, with business class and first class paying more​

Staff Writer
·Editorial team
Mon, 19 February 2024 at 3:59 am GMT

A Singapore Airlines aircraft at Singapore's Changi Airport Terminal 3. (PHOTO: Xinhua/Then Chih Wey via Getty Images)
SINGAPORE — Travellers flying out of Singapore will have to fork out more for their airfares from 2026. This is due to a new levy that the Singapore government will impose to ensure flights departing from the city-state use sustainable aviation fuel.
The Straits Times (ST) reported on Monday (19 February) that while specific details still need to be finalised, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) estimates a possible $3 levy for short-haul economy-class flights, such as those to Bangkok.
The levy for medium-haul flights to Tokyo and long-haul flights to London are estimated to be $6 and $16 respectively. The levy will also differ based on the class of travel, with business class and first class paying more.
The estimates are based on a national target that Singapore has set for sustainable aviation fuel to constitute 1 per cent of all jet fuel used at Changi Airport and Seletar Airport in 2026. The eventual goal is to reach 3 per cent to 5 per cent sustainable fuel use by 2030.
ST reported that the money collected from the passenger levy will go towards the bulk purchase of sustainable aviation fuel for airlines. Sustainable fuel is primarily made from waste materials such as used cooking oil and can be up to five times more expensive than conventional fuel.
CAAS said that finalised details will be announced nearer the date of implementation in 2025.

Aiming for net-zero emissions​

This new levy is part of Singapore’s sustainable air hub blueprint that was developed by CAAS and launched by Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat on Monday at the second Changi Aviation Summit, reported The Straits Times.
The blueprint outlines 12 initiatives for the city-state to tackle aviation emissions, with the objective of reducing carbon emissions from airport operations to 326 kilotonnes per year in 2030. This is 20 per cent lower than the carbon emission levels in 2019.
By 2050, Singapore aims to reach net-zero domestic emissions from its airports and net-zero international emissions from its carriers. This goal excludes future developments such as Terminal 5, as they will have their own separate emission targets.
According to CAAS, Singapore will be the first country in the world to introduce a levy to meet its sustainable aviation fuel goals. This means that the additional costs that travellers have to pay will be fixed and will not be subject to the volatility of sustainable fuel prices.
Other initiatives under the sustainable air hub blueprint include deploying more solar panels at airports, improving air traffic management to reduce fuel burn, and using cleaner energy for vehicles at airports.

Thanks to this levy, John Tan and family are saving the earth each time we fly First Class with SIA

 

[Loofydralb]

Higher airfares for travellers departing Singapore from 2026, with new levy to ensure flights use sustainable fuel​

CAAS estimates additional fees ranging from $3 to $16 for economy-class flights, with business class and first class paying more​

Staff Writer
·Editorial team
Mon, 19 February 2024 at 3:59 am GMT

A Singapore Airlines aircraft at Singapore's Changi Airport Terminal 3. (PHOTO: Xinhua/Then Chih Wey via Getty Images)
SINGAPORE — Travellers flying out of Singapore will have to fork out more for their airfares from 2026. This is due to a new levy that the Singapore government will impose to ensure flights departing from the city-state use sustainable aviation fuel.
The Straits Times (ST) reported on Monday (19 February) that while specific details still need to be finalised, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) estimates a possible $3 levy for short-haul economy-class flights, such as those to Bangkok.
The levy for medium-haul flights to Tokyo and long-haul flights to London are estimated to be $6 and $16 respectively. The levy will also differ based on the class of travel, with business class and first class paying more.
The estimates are based on a national target that Singapore has set for sustainable aviation fuel to constitute 1 per cent of all jet fuel used at Changi Airport and Seletar Airport in 2026. The eventual goal is to reach 3 per cent to 5 per cent sustainable fuel use by 2030.
ST reported that the money collected from the passenger levy will go towards the bulk purchase of sustainable aviation fuel for airlines. Sustainable fuel is primarily made from waste materials such as used cooking oil and can be up to five times more expensive than conventional fuel.
CAAS said that finalised details will be announced nearer the date of implementation in 2025.

Aiming for net-zero emissions​

This new levy is part of Singapore’s sustainable air hub blueprint that was developed by CAAS and launched by Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat on Monday at the second Changi Aviation Summit, reported The Straits Times.
The blueprint outlines 12 initiatives for the city-state to tackle aviation emissions, with the objective of reducing carbon emissions from airport operations to 326 kilotonnes per year in 2030. This is 20 per cent lower than the carbon emission levels in 2019.
By 2050, Singapore aims to reach net-zero domestic emissions from its airports and net-zero international emissions from its carriers. This goal excludes future developments such as Terminal 5, as they will have their own separate emission targets.
According to CAAS, Singapore will be the first country in the world to introduce a levy to meet its sustainable aviation fuel goals. This means that the additional costs that travellers have to pay will be fixed and will not be subject to the volatility of sustainable fuel prices.
Other initiatives under the sustainable air hub blueprint include deploying more solar panels at airports, improving air traffic management to reduce fuel burn, and using cleaner energy for vehicles at airports.

You voted for it. Now swallow your medicine!!!!

Hahaha.

It's not as if they cannot mandate use of Sustainable Fuel in SG!!

Hahaha

 

[A Singaporean]

PAP will find ways and means to fuck retard Sinkies.

 

[meaninglesslife]

Fuck PAP

 

[glockman]

Why travel? Waste time and money, and our island paradise has everything I need for a happy life. If need to go overseas, I go to Ubin, or the southern islands. Life is good!

 

[Pinkieslut]

PAP will find ways and means to fuck retard Sinkies.

Sinkies love it like a slutty whore.

 

[syed putra]

This is good news for palm oil industry. Help malay economy. At last PAP helping natives

 

[syed putra]

JB kampung airport will boom.
In Europe, instead of using sustainable fuel, they cut number of flights on each airport. Amsterdam, despite being busy, will cut 10% of flight to achieve it's climate goal.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Singkies are fucked again by pinky..

‘Magical thinking’: hopes for sustainable jet fuel not realistic, report finds | Greenhouse gas emissions

Globally, flying accounts for about 2% of all emissions. Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
IPS report says replacement fuels well off track to replace kerosene within timeframe needed to avert climate disaster

Hopes that replacement fuels for airplanes will slash carbon pollution are misguided and support for these alternatives could even worsen the climate crisis, a new report has warned.

There is currently “no realistic or scalable alternative” to standard kerosene-based jet fuels, and touted “sustainable aviation fuels” are well off track to replace them in a timeframe needed to avert dangerous climate change, despite public subsidies, the report by the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive thinktank, found.

“While there are kernels of possibility, we should bring a high level of skepticism to the claims that alternative fuels will be a timely substitute for kerosene-based jet fuels,” the report said.

Chuck Collins, co-author of the report, said: “To bring these fuels to the scale needed would require massive subsidies, the trade-offs would be unacceptable and would take resources aware from more urgent decarbonization priorities.

“It’s a huge greenwashing exercise by the aviation industry. It’s magical thinking that they will be able to do this.”

In the US, Joe Biden’s administration has set a goal for 3bn gallons of sustainable aviation fuel, which is made from non-petroleum sources such as food waste, woody biomass and other feedstocks, to be produced by 2030, which it said will cut aviation’s planet-heating emissions by 20%. Globally, flying accounts for about 2% of all emissions, with the world’s wealthiest people the prime instigators of this form of pollution.

This sustainable fuels target will require an enormous 18,887% increase in production, based on 2022 production levels, this decade, the new report found.

“It’s just not scalable,” said Collins.

This is despite plenty of recent taxpayer support – last week, the US Congress agreed to authorize the Federal Aviation Administration for a further five years, with expanded funding for sustainable aviation fuels development. Tax breaks for producing these fuels are also offered via the Inflation Reduction Act.

Various airlines have included goals around sustainable aviation fuels in their own promises to cut pollution. Virgin Atlantic garnered headlines last year by staging the first transatlantic flight using 100% of these fuels, rather than in a blend with traditional jet fuel.

“The world will always assume something can’t be done, until you do it,” said Sir Richard Branson, founder of the airline, about the flight.

But the new Institute for Policy Studies report argues that the airline industry has missed previous goals to ramp up sustainable aviation production and that boosting use of the fuel source may even damage the environment and global climate targets.

Burning sustainable aviation fuels still emits some carbon dioxide, while the land use changes needed to produce the fuels can also lead to increased pollution. Ethanol biofuel, made from corn, is used in these fuels, and meeting the Biden administration’s production goal, the report found, would require 114m acres of corn in the US, about a 20% increase in current land area given over to to the crop.

In the UK, meanwhile, 50% of all agricultural land will have to be given up to sustain current flight passenger levels if jet fuel was entirely replaced.

“Agricultural land use changes could threaten global food security as well as nature-based carbon sequestration solutions such as the preservation of forests and wetlands,” the report states. “As such, SAF production may actively undermine the Paris agreement goal of achieving greatly reduced emissions by 2050.”

Phil Ansell, director of the Center for Sustainable Aviation at the University of Illinois, said the aviation industry had been faced with a much steeper challenge than other sectors to decarbonize. Large commercial airliners cannot be outfitted with batteries, unlike cars, due to their weight, while progress in other fuel forms, such as hydrogen, has been complicated.

“There’s an underappreciation of how big the energy problem is for aviation. We are still many years away from zero pollution flights,” he said.

“But it’s true that the industry has been slow to pick things up. We are now trying to find solutions, but we are working at this problem and realizing it’s a lot harder than we thought. We are late to the game. We are in the dark ages in terms of sustainability, compared to other sectors.”

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[mahjongking]

coffers are empty?........