Committed to improve fuel efficiency of new aircraft by 50 per cent by 2020.

More than 700,000 direct and indirect jobs.

More than £11bn contributed to UK GDP in 2006.

500,000 new jobs in the tourism sector expected to be created by growth in international visitors by 2030 .

Over 50% of people in the UK fly every year.

£18bn in international tourism-related receipts.

Flying Matters

Business travel

30 June 2009

Barclay Card Travel survey: business relationships before budget say

Maintaining a company’s level of business travel is vital to the individual organisation and has far reaching im ...

Gordon Brown

28 June 2009

Tax hikes price millions out of flying

Jason Groves reported in this week's

Prince Charles

24 June 2009

Prince's global tours

The release of the official figures relating to Prince Charles' accounts has also prompted criticism of an ...

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