Cheap flights threaten UK targets for carbon emissions

The boom in foreign travel generated by cheaper air fares and no frills airlines will wreck Britain’s attempts to bring climate change under control, environmentalists fear.

As the travel industry prepares for record bookings in 2006, green groups expressed concern over the “failure” of the Government to curb the availability of cheap flights that have sent aviation pollution surging. Fumes spewed out by jets are expected to become the single biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

The Independent