The BHA is the non-profit trade organisation that represents the UK’s civil helicopter industry to government departments and international bodies. Its main aim it is to promote the safe, efficient and environmentally responsible operation of rotorcraft throughout the UK.
“The helicopter industry needs a professional lobby group to safeguard our interests and also to offer knowledgeable advice to both those within and outside of our industry. Force in numbers is what is required in this day and age to deflect spurious legislation from the CAA and Europe and this is what the BHA achieves and is why my company is a member.”
BHA Survey Participant
BHA NEGOTIATES EXEMPTION FROM GOVERNMENT PLANS TO APPLY AIR PASSENGER DUTY ON HELICOPTERS
Earlier this year HM Government proposed changes to aviation tax by extending APD to include business jets and helicopters with an authorised take-off weight above 5.7 tonnes. In preparing the proposal, the government consulted the airlines but failed to consider those sectors that were now proposed to be included.
The BHA, working closely with the British Business and General Aviation Association (BBGA) and the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA), together with industry partners, formulated responses to the proposal and organised a series of meetings with HM Revenue and Customs and HM Treasury to better inform them of industry concerns.
On 6 December HM Treasury released its APD paper which confirmed that rotorcraft would not be subject to Air Passenger Duty. The BHA would like to thank the BBGA, EBBA and those industry representatives that gave their support so freely to this campaign.
