Business aviation gets on surer footing in Europe
After a long period of strained relations between the UK general aviation community and the country’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the two groups are wo
After a long period of strained relations between the UK general aviation community and the country’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the two groups are working together constructively to push for the implementation of recommendations from the strategic and regulatory reviews that they jointly concluded in June.
For example, the CAA is trying to convince other government departments to change planning policy to recognize the need for GA aircraft to have adequate access to airports where capacity is increasingly squeezed by air transport growth. Similarly, the authority has told the Treasury that it should remove value-added tax on flight training since the sales tax is not applied to other forms of training in Britain.
