The report, commissioned by aviation lobby group A4E, said that scrapping the tax would make Germany a more attractive travel destination, generating 1.08 billion euros a year via indirect taxes, more than making up for the lost revenues.
Germany introduced an air passenger tax in 2011 to raise about 1 billion euros a year, as part of tens of billions of euros of budget measures amid the global financial crisis."Removing all air passenger levies would add more than 24.6 million passengers by 2020, with more than half being tourists," A4E Managing Director Thomas Reynaert said.That would help create thousands of new jobs and raise Germany's gross domestic product by 3.7 billion euros in 2018. That figure would rise to 6.9 billion a year by 2030, PwC said. German GDP totaled 3.1 trillion euros in 2016.Germany is one of a number of European countries that charge an air travel tax, including Britain, France and Greece.Germany's Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries said in an interview in August, after the country's No. 2 airline Air Berlin