The Impact of the Flight Tax on the Demand for Air Transportation

This thesis examines the impact of the flight tax on the amount of passengers at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. The flight tax was a Dutch ecotax, started in 2008 to discourage air traveling in order to release pressure on the environment, to make the environment more sustainable in the future. In this paper, a panel study is executed under five major European airports to obtain the real impact of the flight tax. GDP functions as a controlling variable. The outcome of the analysis should provide information to be able to assess whether the flight tax is a legitimate fiscal instrument