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Low cost airlines should not bear the brunt of environmental lobby – TravelMole guest comment by David Soskin, CEO, Cheapflights
The suggestion that low-cost carriers and flight providers are the major contributors to pollution and should bear the financial burden of environmental clean-up campaigns is frankly ludicrous.
Surely the solution to this problem is not to impose yet another, stealth tax on the travelling public, which will undoubtedly be absorbed into the ever-expanding paper pushing bureaucracy of British government.
Instead the responsibility should lie with the aviation industry as a whole – both low-cost and scheduled – to tackle the issue at source.
The global motoring industry is embracing environmentally friendly development and will gradually bring those solutions to the mass market motoring industry. Why should aviation be any different?
As a leading industry source of business to providers of cheap flights in the UK travel market, Cheapflights.co.uk cares passionately about the environment; but the real answer lies in building more environmentally friendly airplanes, not in penalizing travellers and those who work in the travel industry.
Greenpeace aviation and climate expert Mark Strutt’s comments, (as reported in The Observer and TravelMole) were unnecessarily elitist.
Why when we are living in a democracy should the value conscious traveller be excluded from flying? The answer lies with technology advancement. Cheap flights should NOT become the scapegoat for this issue.
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