Have you done the same sort of analysis that--with the indulgence of the chair--that Ms. Young was talking about the commercial airlines having done?

This does appear to an American citizen, an American traveler, as, one, a violation of international law, a violation of American sovereignty, and an illegal tax.

I think it's going to be perceived as a tax.

I think that's going to be the only way, Madam Chair, that we're going to be able to force what should have happened in the first place to happen, and that is to go to ICAO and get this resolved.

NBAA also supports S. 1956, The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme Prohibition Act Of 2011.

This is a violation of international law?

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