英国领先航空公司警告政府，预算案中一项不显眼的税收措施可能导致乘客机票价格上涨。
Airlines warn budget raid will drive up passenger fares Britain's leading airlines have warned the government that a little-noticed budget measure risks pushing up airfares for passengers.
Sky News 看到一封由航空公司英国协会（Airlines UK）首席执行官 Tim Alderslade 发送给财政大臣 Dan Tomlinson 的信，要求紧急讨论将碳边境调整机制（CBAM）扩展到包括航空燃料等炼油产品的提案。
Sky News has seen a letter sent by Tim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, to Treasury minister Dan Tomlinson seeking urgent talks over proposals to extend the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to refinery products such as aviation fuel.
在信中，Alderslade 先生表示，其成员包括英国航空和维珍大西洋航空，认为该扩展“将给行业带来额外成本”。
In the letter, Mr Alderslade, whose members include British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, said the extension "would place a further cost on the sector".
他写道：“燃油是航空公司运营成本中最重要的组成部分，而英国在其喷气燃料供应中大量依赖进口。”
"Fuel is one of the most significant elements of an airline's operating costs and the United Kingdom relies on imports for a substantial proportion of its jet fuel supply," he wrote.
“我们的成员因此担心，在未与英国航空公司协商的情况下，相关提案将给行业带来额外成本，此外还会增加航空公司已在英国排放交易体系、CORSIA、SAF 令以及全球最高的航空乘客税（Air Passenger Duty）下承担的碳义务，并且在中东地区不稳定导致燃油成本上升的时期。”
"Our members are therefore concerned that the proposals, taken without consultation with UK airlines, would place a further cost on the sector, coming in addition to the carbon obligations carriers already meet under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, CORSIA and the SAF Mandate, and more widely through Air Passenger Duty, the highest tax of its kind in the world, and at a time of rising fuel costs owing to instability in the Middle East." His warning emerged just hours after the Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary said the Dublin-based carrier would take an axe to its cost base partly as a result of its soaring fuel bill in the wake of geopolitical events this year.
他的警告正值 Ryanair 首席执行官 Michael O'Leary 仅数小时前表示，位于都柏林的航空公司将削减成本基数，部分原因是今年地缘政治事件导致燃油账单飙升。
CBAMs are used as policy tools to prevent decarbonisation efforts by domestic producers being undermined by foreign rivals.
CBAM 作为政策工具，用于防止国内生产者的脱碳努力被外国竞争对手削弱。
However, the UK's dependence upon aviation fuel imports at a time when airlines are already concerned about the costs of hitting sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) targets has alarmed the industry.
然而，英国在航空燃料进口方面的依赖，以及航空公司已对实现可持续航空燃料（SAF）目标的成本表示担忧，已引发行业警觉。
One aviation source said: "Britain imports the vast majority of its jet fuel, so this a tax on air travel by the back door.
一位航空业内人士表示：“英国几乎全部进口喷气燃料，这相当于对航空旅行的背后税收。乘客将通过更高的机票价格来承担。”
"Passengers will pay for it via higher fares."