He claims that 18% of their UK ticket revenue is now Air Passenger Duty charges.
There will also be a short debate on the future of Air Passenger Duty.
The committee is delighted that he had implemented its advice to scrap air passenger duty there.
Chief executive Jim French pinned the blame for the significant losses on the government's Air Passenger Duty tax.
Air passenger duty (APD) has risen by 8%, as announced by the government in the Autumn Statement last year.
She was also lobbied over the issue of Air Passenger Duty, which the industry would like to see scrapped.
The airline has blamed its poor results on rising fuel costs and falling demand because of increases in air passenger duty.
And the campaign for control of Air Passenger Duty is already causing concern at the business it could draw north from Newcastle Airport.
The British Chambers of Commerce has called for the government to abandon its opposition to airport expansion and scrap Air Passenger Duty increases.
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He said he saw no difficulty with smaller taxes being administered from Wales, such as stamp duty, land tax and air passenger duty.
Nevertheless, in his pre-Budget report Mr Brown doubled air passenger duty.
The council also welcomed that fact that Air Passenger Duty has not been increased due to the adverse impact it would have on Northern Ireland passengers.
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MSPs then took evidence on air passenger duty (apd) and aggregates tax from Amanda McMillan from Glasgow Airport and Richard Bird from the British Aggregates Association.
But Mr Wilson gave a cautious welcome to some of the announced measures, including the devolution of air passenger duty and tax relief for high-end television production.
The first minister called for the devolution of landfill tax, stamp duty land tax, aggregates levy and air passenger duty, to support the delivery of his government's priorities.
But as Amanda McMillan, managing director of BAA's Glasgow Airport told the programme, the sharp rises in Air Passenger Duty are doing nothing to help develop air links.
The Scotland Bill Committee in the last parliament called for the devolving of the aggregates levy and air passenger duty following a UK government review of the issues.
Plaid Cymru AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas urged the government to continue to campaign for the devolution of air passenger duty to Wales as it could be used as a lever to promote economic growth.
"Silk is where the rubber hits the road for Wales right now, " said Mr Smith, who said Labour support the devolution of taxes such as air passenger duty and the aggregates levy if it unlocks borrowing powers.
This could mean the Welsh Assembly is given more powers to levy some taxes, such as rubbish dumping costs, air passenger duty on flights and stamp duty when buying homes, although it would not be limited to those taxes.
The finance secretary also made fresh calls for responsibility for air passenger duty to be devolved to Scotland and for the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition at Westminster to do more to improve access to finance for small and medium-sized businesses.
We'll have to wait for November the 19th to find out exactly what's on the table here, but the guess would be full devolution of some minor taxes - the Aggregates Levy, Air Passenger Duty, Landfill Tax, possibly Stamp Duty?
It does not implement the Calman recommendations to give the Scottish government the power to set Aggregate Tax rates, which are currently the subject of EU litigation, or air passenger duty, which is currently being reviewed by the coalition government.
The bill does not implement the Calman recommendations to give the Scottish government the power to set Aggregate Tax rates, which are currently the subject of EU litigation, or air passenger duty, which is currently being reviewed by the coalition government.
So when Plaid Cymru tabled an amendment to the Finance Bill to devolve air passenger duty to Wales, and Welsh Labour MPs didn't vote for it, Plaid duly condemned Labour, not that Labour votes would have changed the outcome of the vote.
Sustainable transport pressure group Transport 2000 has called for a package of measures, including a significant rise in Air Passenger Duty, VAT on all aviation transactions, a firm commitment to an EU emissions charge and take-off and landing slot auctioning at the main airports.
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If Paul Silk and his colleagues come back this autumn with a recommendation that the Assembly should gain powers to raise more than the "peanut" taxes like the aggregates levy and air passenger duty, then it's Labour who will have the greatest difficulty in accepting much beyond this - and will be the most exposed by being in government.
The final report of the Calman Commission published in June 2009 stated that the Scottish Parliament should have substantially greater control over the raising of the revenues that make up the Scottish budget, primarily through sharing with the UK Parliament responsibility for setting income tax rates and through devolution of some smaller taxes, including Air Passenger Duty and Landfill Tax.
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