Blog - Aviation

Nov 28th 2025

Rebalancing transport costs: five good things in the Budget

The cost of different forms of transport, both on their own and relative to each other, has a critical influence on whether and how people travel. People on low incomes…

Mar 14th 2025

Green Football Weekend

Last year, more than 100 players and 115 clubs from the Premier League, English Football League, and Women’s Super League participated. Whilst this year’s focus is on reducing the volume…

Dec 31st 2024

Together, we made great progress in 2024

Improving transport is about making people’s lives better. Wherever we live and whatever our circumstances, we should all be to get to where we need to go. No one should…

Aug 14th 2024

It’s time football clubs kicked their flying habit

Last year, a BBC study found that during a two-month period, Premier League clubs took 81 individual short-haul domestic flights to and from 100 matches. The average journey time was…

Mar 20th 2024

Smarter flying

Business travellers make up some 12 per cent of passengers, but up to 75 per cent of revenues on certain flights, so their choices have important leverage on the aviation…

Aug 23rd 2023

Flights of fancy are fanning the flames

You might think, as the aviation industry blithely flies tourists into this vicious consequence of climate change, that they might show some self-awareness of their own contribution to the problem,…

Jul 18th 2023

It’s time for some plane speaking

Currently, the aviation industry seems intent on solving the emissions issue by relying on the development of zero-emission flight technology, electric aircraft or sustainable aviation fuel for guilt– free flying….

Jul 6th 2023

Fewer Flights Charter: our ten-point plan to reduce aviation emissions

Both continue to rely on new technologies to provide a future of ‘guilt-free flying’ in several decades time, except we don’t have decades to wait to start to tackle climate…

Mar 30th 2023

Let’s make it easier to choose train over plane

So the decision to halve Air Passenger Duty on domestic flights from 1 April is a terrible one. Yes, it sounds almost like a bad April Fool’s joke, but the…

Mar 22nd 2023

Smarter business travel 

Frequent flyers make up just one per cent of the world’s population, yet they account for more than half of all of global aviation emissions, with corporate travel one of…

Jan 5th 2023

Time to tax polluting private jets

In 2021, there were 135,505 private aircraft movements (arrivals and departures) in the UK. That’s a heck of a lot. European private jet carbon emissions have increased by almost a third (31 per cent) since…

Nov 8th 2022

Employees want businesses to fly less

For airlines, business travel is where the big bucks are. Whilst business travellers account for just 12 per cent of all airline passengers, they are typically twice as profitable as…

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