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New UK rail travel platform promises to plant a tree for every booking
A new train ticketing platform launching today is promising to plant a tree for every booking, which it hopes will appeal to passengers who care about climate change. Trainhugger says it will use 50p out of each £1.50 booking fee to pay for a young tree, in partnership with the Royal Forestry Society and Royal Scottish Forestry Society.
New six-year contract for Chiltern Railways
Chiltern Railways has committed to expanding trials converting diesel trains to diesel-battery hybrids.
North Shropshire by-election: Boris Johnson makes transport pledge during Oswestry visit
Boris Johnson has said improving Shropshire's transport infrastructure is central to his "levelling up" agenda during a visit to the county.
TfGM looks beyond transport for travel reduction win-wins
Working on a cross-sector basis beyond the traditional boundaries of the transport sector holds the potential to bring changes that help meet climate change and decarbonisation objectives, Stuart Blackadder, innovation strategy officer from Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) told the Summit.
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BBC News
- Stansted Airport: Drone came within 6ft of Boeing 737, report saysA drone came within 6.6ft (2m) of a Boeing 737 as it came in to land, a report said. The passenger plane was preparing to land at Stansted Airport and was flying north west of Harlow, Essex, when the incident happened on 13 September.
- London Luton Airport plans for 1m more passengers approvedPlans to allow one million more passengers through the UK's fifth busiest airport have been approved by councillors.
- MH370: Could missing Malaysian Airlines plane finally be found?A British engineer believes he may help solve one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.
The Guardian
- Grounded! What did a year without flying do to the world?Normally, planes are in constant motion, pinballing between continents. But in March 2020 all that came to a halt. What did it mean for our jobs, our horizons – and the planet?On 14 March 2020, I left my home in the Orkney Islands to drive to Edinburgh international airport. I was due to travel to Germany for a research trip. Full of nervous anticipation, and making frantic last-minute preparations, I hadn’t paid as much attention to the coronavirus crisis as I might have, but events were developing so quickly across Europe, it was dawning on me that international travel might not be an option...
Reuters News
- Emirates boss sees airline's future in aviation hub model Emirates President Tim Clark sees its aviation hub business model as central to the airline's future despite the damage the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought upon parts of the travel industry.
- Jetpacks, flying cars and taxi drones: transport's future is in the skiesParamedics with jetpacks, border police in flying cars and city workers commuting by drone all sound like science fiction - but the concepts are part of a advanced air mobility (AAM)Paramedics with jetpacks, border police in flying cars and city workers commuting by drone all sound like science fiction - but the concepts are part of a advanced air mobility (AAM) market that is expected to be worth as much as $17 billion by 2025.
Birmingham Post
- Green jet fuels 'a great opportunity for the Humber' - BA head after momentous Phillips 66 deal struckBritish Airways' head of sustainability has spoken to Business Live about the Phillips 66 deal and backed Velocys new-build refinery
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- Sustainable Aviation Fuel Aces Helicopter and Plane Flight TestsThe biofuel, made from used cooking oil, could help the aviation industry cut climate-threatening carbon emissions
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