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Dear Mark Harper MP,
I am writing to urge you to do more to address rising carbon emissions from domestic aviation, which is threatening to throw the UK’s efforts to decarbonise transport off course.
Recent Government policies – halving Air Passenger Duty on domestic flights and raising rail fares – have worked to promote domestic flights at the expense of the train. As the need to reduce emissions from transport becomes ever more urgent, switching away from high polluting transport modes to more sustainable ones is crucial. 
Campaign for Better Transport’s new report, <a href="https://bettertransport.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Plane-Speaking-Moving-journeys-from-air-to-rail-July-2023.pdf">Plane Speaking: Moving journeys from air to rail</a>, shows that reducing the number of non-lifeline domestic flights in the UK could be done relatively easily by shifting some of these journeys to rail. We have a fantastic rail network which, as Campaign for Better Transport’s report shows, can often rival domestic flights on both cost and journey time with the vast majority of the top 20 most popular domestic routes proving cheaper, or no more expensive, and quicker by rail once airport processing times are factored in. Rail, as you know, is also ten times less polluting than flying.
To help reduce the number of domestic air trips and boost rail journeys, I am writing to ask that you:
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<li>Require airlines to give passengers realistic travelling times for domestic flights which include airport processing times</li>
<li>Require airlines to publish carbon emissions for domestic flights and the equivalent rail option</li>
<li>Introduce a domestic flight reduction target</li>
<li>Reverse the cut in Air Passenger Duty for domestic flights</li>
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We urgently need to reduce aviation’s impact on the climate. We can not wait for new technologies to do the job, we must act now.
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