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Climate change: UK to speed up target to cut carbon emissions
Radical new climate change commitments will set the UK on course to cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035, the UK government has announced.
Smart motorways will be made safer but ministers reject hard shoulders [subscription]
New safety measures on smart motorways will be accelerated by up to ten months amid government warnings that reinstating the hard shoulder will make roads more dangerous.
Martin Tugwell appointed as Chief Executive of Transport for the North
Martin Tugwell will succeed Barry White in becoming the next Chief Executive of TfN from summer 2021, with Tim Wood acting as Interim Chief Executive in the meantime.
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
BBC News
- Ettyl announces Carlisle airport and Stobart Air purchaseThe sale of Stobart Air and Carlisle Lake District Airport has been announced.
The Guardian
- Ministers urge Heathrow to dedicate terminal for ‘red list’ arrivalsMinisters have urged Heathrow airport to dedicate a terminal to processing passengers arriving from “red list” countries, amid fears that the number of people coming from India could swell and create a more dangerous environment for Covid variants to spread.
The Independent
- Heathrow to lose its European crown to Istanbul, says aviation analystExclusive: ‘By the time international hubs recover, Istanbul’s mega-airport is likely to have established itself as Europe’s busiest’
- Heathrow to lose its European crown to Istanbul, says aviation analystExclusive: ‘By the time international hubs recover, Istanbul’s mega-airport is likely to have established itself as Europe’s busiest’
Times Online
- Airport operator Esken dumps little-used airfields [subscription]Britain’s only stock market-quoted airport operator has halved the number of airstrips it runs.
Aviation Industry
- End of era for fossil-fuelled aviation in the UK as Government legislates to cap emissions from flying internationallyDespite decades of talk from the aviation industry about tackling the sector’s climate impacts, emissions from UK aviation were higher in 2019, just before the pandemic, than ever before, and …
Other News Sources
- Heathrow Express TV rebrands to reflect service’s role as ‘gateway’Global entertainment and aviation media specialist Spafax has produced a new creative strategy, visual identity and branded content for Heathrow Express TV, which entertains passengers travelling onboard from London Heathrow Airport to London Paddington station.
- Govt warned airport queues could worsen after 17 MayEfforts to check Covid border papers could buckle under the weight of additional demand if international travel does resume next month, it has been warned.
News from Europe
- Rail vs aviation, charging points rollout criticism, and measuring microplastics... ome MEPs, however, feel that next year would be better spent celebrating a different pandemic-hit form of transport: aviation. Ninety-six lawmakers from the European Parliament’s Sky & Space intergroup have requested that 2022 be the “European Year of Aviation”.
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