Spain’s left-wing coalition party Sumar has registered a non-binding motion in Congress calling on the government to create a tax on emissions from private jets and luxury yachts, with the aim of reducing their environmental impact and financing measures such as a single ticket for public transport and improvements to the rail network.Although the use of private jets has traditionally been associated with business travel, Sumar believes that this is now changing and that it is now more linked to luxury holiday and tourist activity, as reflected in a report published by Greenpeace last September. According to data from the report on luxury tourism and its impact, carried out by T3 Transportation Think Tank, conventional tourism on scheduled flights and luxury tourism on private jet flights had a very similar seasonal pattern in 2023.
The study, which analyses private jet landings at 45 airports in the most important tourist and holiday destinations across Europe during that year, recorded 117,965, 42.6% of them between 1 June and 30 September, which represents 41.6% of CO2 emissions.
In Spain, there were 27,122 private jet landings in 2023, 23% of the total for the countries analysed in the report: 7,502 at Palma airport, 6,504 in Ibiza, 6,314 at Málaga airport, 4,826 at Barcelona-El Prat airport, 843 at Menorca airport, 542 at Tenerife South airport, 434 at Gran Canaria airport, 93 at Lanzarote airport and 83 at Tenerife North airport. Those 27,122 flights - a third of the.