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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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.
Flying Matters
15 August 2008
Weak dollar and global slowdown prompts 5% fall in visitors to Britain
A REFLECTION of the slowdown in the global economy and the strength of sterling before its recent sharp decline, the number of visitors to the UK fell by 5 per cent over the three months to June.
The Internation ...
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 ...
27 July 2008
Heathrow expansion protestors may disrupt airport
Militant opponents of Heathrow's expansion are drawing up plans to disrupt the airport, throwing the travel pl ...
22 July 2008
Stuff Skegness, my trunks and I are off to the sun
Well, my friends, it's been nice knowing you. I like to think this column has acquired a reputation for daring. I flat ...
12 July 2008
Agency criticised over city airport
CITY businesses have called the South West Regional Development Agency “shortsighted” for deciding not to ...
11 July 2008
Rolls-Royce and BA to test fro greener fuels
Rolls-Royce and British Airways are teaming up to conduct an in-depth study of using alternative fuels in the aviation ...
10 July 2008
Leisure MPs blast ministers for policy on tourism
THE Government's treatment of the tourism industry has been blasted by MPs who criticised the governance and funding o ...
5 July 2008
Indian tourists fly into Britain to outspend the Americans
The tourist trail for visitors coming to Britain may once have led most of them to Madame Tussauds, Westminster Abbey ...
5 June 2008
Anti-aviation activist goes to New York ... by plane
A LEADING anti-aviation activist has flown to New York to hold meetings with American airport protesters and see the s ...
30 May 2008
British Airways adds £60 fuel surcharge to long-haul flights
A family of four will have to pay £240 more for flights after British Airways announced the biggest rise in fuel ...
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