UK air traffic continues to fall
The "Fair Tax on Flying" alliance is the latest in a long list of organisations to call on the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer to follow the lead of other European governments in abandoning taxes on airline passengers. Meanwhile, a group of senior Conservative politicians and business leaders wrote to a national newspaper to call on the government to cancel its "vanity" high-speed rail project, “a GBP30 billion train set that only a minority of fortunate passengers can use".
