The Committee for Climate Change (CCC) has said today “Air travel will have to become more expensive and the number of flights will need to be restricted if the UK is to meet a pledge to lower emissions in 40 years”. With aviation set to increase in the UK over the next few years and plans to add another runway at Heathrow the aviation industry as a whole could rise by 200 percent. However the Governments plans to ensure emissions will not exceed 2005 levels by 2050, will mean that growth could be forcibly kept at 60 percent to meet the targets. This will then cause restrictions in the aviation industry, which inevitably will lead to higher ticket prices for travelers.
These plans to allow growth but to squeeze the traveler to keep emissions at a lower level is not recommended by Greenpeace UK executive director John Sauven who says “Britain flew ‘more than any other nation on Earth’ and that the right approach was limiting demand for flights and investing in alternatives such as better rail links.”
Either way the average UK traveler will still end up paying the price for these plans and the search for cheap flights will become harder in the near future.
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