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.

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

Over 50%  of people in the UK flew in 2006.

£18bn in international tourism-related receipts  in 2005.

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15 August 2008

Weak dollar and global slowdown prompts 5% fall in visitors to Brita

A REFLECTION of the slowdown in the global economy and the strength of sterling before its recent sharp decline, the n ...

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2 August 2008

Airfreight ban not popular with voters

Seventy per cent of voters in key Conservative target seats believe developing countries should not be penalised by re ...

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29 July 2008

With Dubrovnik cheaper than Dorset, we need cheap flights

Hooray, it's the end of cheap flights. All those horrible plastic seats, the 3am starts, the hidden luggage costs, the ...

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