{"id":635397,"date":"2024-02-20T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T04:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=635397"},"modified":"2024-02-20T11:10:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T05:40:45","slug":"singapore-to-impose-green-fuel-levy-on-flights-passengers-to-bear-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/singapore-to-impose-green-fuel-levy-on-flights-passengers-to-bear-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore to impose green fuel levy on flights , passengers to bear costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travellers will need to bear the cost of the transition towards green jet fuel, Singapore&#8217;s transport minister said as he announced the city state&#8217;s plans for a levy on flight ticket prices as the aviation industry seeks a viable funding model. <\/p>\n<p>The plans announced at an industry summit on the eve of the Singapore Airshow aim for all departing flights to use 1% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from 2026, rising to 3-5% by 2030, subject to global developments and the wider availability and adoption of SAF. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will hurt our air hub and our economy, and raise the cost of travel for passengers if we are overly ambitious with our sustainability goals,&#8221; Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat said of the need for modest targets initially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travellers will need to bear the cost of the transition towards green jet fuel, Singapore&#8217;s transport minister said as he announced the city state&#8217;s plans for a levy on flight ticket prices as the aviation industry seeks a viable funding model. The plans announced at an industry summit on the eve of the Singapore Airshow aim for all departing flights to use 1% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from 2026, rising to 3-5% by 2030, subject to global developments and the wider availability and adoption of SAF. &#8220;It will hurt our air hub and our economy, and raise the cost of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}