Reply To: Chat thread – Thursday 23rd January

[BSI1978]

Interesting story in the Graun this AM about the potential 3rd runaway at LHR (& possible expansion at LTN). Whilst usually loath to take a snippet from a report absent full context, this struck me as ‘interesting’ –

The officials drawing up the document accepted this, writing that plane tickets are not expensive enough: “Ticket prices do not reflect the full social cost of flying and are not sufficiently incentivising the uptake of decarbonisation solutions such as SAF.”

The report was referencing SAF at that point, and the unlikelihood that there would be sufficient land to scale the necessary SAF required. But the reference to plane tickets not costing enough is a tad alarming.