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Ban UK domestic flights and subsidise rail travel, urges transport charity

Exclusive: Campaign for Better Transport calls on government to end ‘climate disaster’ of internal flights

Domestic flights should be banned and long-distance train fares subsidised, transport campaigners have urged, highlighting the relative environmental and financial costs of air and rail travel.

The Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) called on ministers to outlaw internal UK flights if an equivalent train journey took less than five hours and to resist calls for any cut in air passenger duty.

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