Air travellers face potential fare increases of up to 30 per cent in coming years as the EU increases taxes on aviation, high-profile economist Colm McCarthy has warned.

Mr McCarthy, who is also a director of the State airports company DAA, told a tourism industry conference at the weekend that the European Commission wants to hit jet kerosene with a a 33 cent a litre carbon tax.

Speaking at the University of Limerick tourism policy workshop at Dromoland Castle in Co Clare, Mr McCarthy noted that Brussels also wanted to end a VAT exemption for airline tickets.

The proposed carbon tax on jet fuel would add 12 per cent to tickets ,while ending the VAT exemption could bring the overall increase to 30 per cent.

Europe would scrap existing national taxes on air fares should it introduce VAT, said Mr McCarthy.

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