Austria's Transport Minister Leonore Gewessler (Greens) announced the introduction of a 30 euro air travel tax on short-haul flights of up to 350 kilometers. At first glance, this would massively increase the cost of many feeder connections, but according to a university professor at Johannes Kepler University Linz, these are not affected at all. The point-to-point volume on connections such as Graz-Vienna, Klagenfurt-Vienna or Salzburg-Vienna has always been extremely manageable. The vast majority of passengers on ultra-short-haul flights are transfer flights. Point-to-point flights from Graz to Vienna, for example, are only booked very rarely. The planned law stipulates that the air travel tax is 12 euros per passenger. In contrast, 30 euros are due if "the distance between the domestic airport from which the departure takes place and the destination airport is less than 350 km. The stated distance is determined using the great circle distance method." The legal expert from the Johannes Kepler University in Linz expressly points out that the definition of the term “destination airport” in Section 2 Paragraph 5 of the Flight Tax Act has not been changed at all and thus remains unchanged. The wording of the legislator stipulates the following: “Destination airport is the domestic or foreign location where the passenger’s flight is scheduled to end. The airport at which a stopover is made is not considered the destination airport. A stopover is the interruption of the passenger’s flight for less than 24 hours if the interruption is followed by a departure to an airport other than the airports of the previous departures. The destination airport does not have to be different from the airport of departure (sightseeing flight).” The law professor concludes from this: “This means that the end point of the journey is considered the destination airport, and if