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May 9, 2024
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Flight ticket taxes in Europe: Environmental and economic impact

Publicated to: TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART A-POLICY AND PRACTICE. 179 103892- - 2024-01-01 179(), DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2023.103892

Authors:

Bernardo, V; Fageda, X; Teixidó, J
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Affiliations

TecnoCampus UPF, Escola Super Ciencies Socials & Empresa, C Ernest Lluch 32, Mataro 08032, Barcelona, Spain - Author
Univ Barcelona, Dept Econometria Estat Econ & Aplicada, Ave Diagonal 690, Barcelona 08034, Spain - Author
Univ Barcelona, GIM, IREA, Ave Diagonal 690, Barcelona 08034, Spain - Author
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Abstract

We examine the causal impact of flight ticket taxes on airline flights and derived CO2 emissions and analyse its distributional effects between airlines and travellers and within travellers. We use a dataset on flights within Europe at the airline-route level and apply a staggered difference-indifferences approach considering potential bias of the standard two-way fixed effects and the potential distorting effects of heterogeneities between treated and control routes. The main analysis focuses on low-cost airlines because connecting passengers are typically excluded from the tax. We find that flight ticket taxes have a significant overall effect on low-costs airlines supply and derived emissions: ticket taxes reduce the number of flights per airline-route by 12% on average compared to the counterfactual scenario, resulting in a 14% reduction in carbon emissions. In addition, we estimate a pricing equation using a quantile model to identify the cost pass-through rate over the distribution of the fare variable. The burden of the tax is higher for passengers paying low fares, so taxes have a stronger effect on avoidable flights with less added value and a smaller internalization of the total costs of flying.
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Keywords

Air transportationAirlineAirline industryAirline routesCarbon dioxideCarbon emissionChange costsClimate changeClimate change costClimate change costsCo 2 emissionCompetitionConductCost benefit analysisDemandDiff-in-diffDifferenceDifference-in-differencesDispersionEconomic impactEnvironmental and economic impactsEnvironmental economicsEnvironmental impactEuropeFlight ticket taxFlight ticket taxesLow-cost airlinesMarket powerPrice elasticitiesTax systemTaxation

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART A-POLICY AND PRACTICE due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position 22/620, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Economics. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-01:

  • WoS: 2
  • Scopus: 2
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-01:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 39.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 37 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 17.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 6 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Bernardo, Valeria) .

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Awards linked to the item

This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2021-128237OB-I00, TED2021-130638A-I00) .
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