Letter: Airline Pilots and Climate

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The European Union's unilateral effort to tax United States airlines in the name of addressing climate change threatens thousands of United States jobs at a time when our airlines are already overtaxed and competing with heavily state-backed foreign carriers ("Your Biggest Carbon Sin May Be Air Travel," news analysis, Sunday Review, Jan. 27).

Airline pilots play a critical role in protecting the environment. Along with our union's efforts to promote sound environmental policy, pilots also make our commitment clear in the cockpit, through single-engine taxiing, technology-enhanced departure and arrival procedures, and other emission-cutting flight operations.

The true solution to reducing emissions is maximizing voluntary measures that are already proved to make a difference and creating international emissions guidelines through the International Civil Aviation Organization.

The United States airline industry's employees need the federal government to make certain our industry thrives and to help us deliver on our drive to compete and win in the global marketplace.

LEE MOAK
President, Air Line Pilots Assn. Intl.
Washington, Jan. 29, 2013

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