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cleaner planes
Jet engines burn what is essentially diesel fuel, and inevitably produce volumes of NOx.
People lving under the flight paths of UK airports, and especially Heathrow, already live in an environment where the air quality is beneath safe levels.
That is why TfL and 5 local authorities recently engaged in a two-week High Court case against Chris Grayling as Transport Secretary for giving the go ahead for the 3rd runway at Heathrow.
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jj72
I don’t think it’s the right approach to penalise people for flying, it’s a mode of travel not a luxury. It would be better to incentivise air carriers to focus on having cleaner planes and penalise those that don’t. Obviously this only works if all countries play ball.