Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Econimical air travel
- Advantage
- promote tourism
- Broaden/enrich leisure experiene
- ameliorate quality of life
- widen the range of potential holiday destinations
- turn to/resort to air flight as a means of travel
- long-haul holiday
- give a boost to trade
- facilitate exporting and importing products
- be an enabler of exchange of goods between countries
- attract investment into and out of the country
- closer international integration
- generate remarkable economic growth
- unlock the potential for trade and tourism
- Disadvantage
- come at the cost of quality
- Delay
- Personal experience
- environmental impacts
- exarcerbate/compound the already serious problem of air pollution
- give off/emit sheer volumes of emissions even when idling or taxiing
- return flight to Florida produces the equivalent carbon dioxide to a year's motoring
- return flight to Australia equals the emissions of three average cars for a year
- Fly from London to Edinburgh for the weekend and you produce 193kg of CO2, eight times the 23.8kg you produce by taking the train
- Climate change
- pollution is released at an altitude where its effect on climate change is more than double that on the ground
- civil aviation
- should be curtailed to alleviate environmental impacts
- A decade of low ticket prices has fuelled trips
- 30-60% cheaper
- 200% growth in UK regional airports