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Developing a sustainable framework for UK aviation: Scoping document

Aviation makes a significant contribution, both directly and indirectly, to the UK economy. We want to maximise this contribution in the future and explore how aviation growth can occur, while ensuring that it is genuinely sustainable. The key challenge for the aviation sector now is to reduce its global and local environmental impacts, so that it is able to grow sustainably and support the economy over the longer term. Since we do not expect to return to a world where aviation growth is unconstrained by environmental factors, and since it is as yet unclear at what rate technological change can deliver the environmental ‘headroom’ for aviation to expand, we must also address the question of how we prioritise available capacity where demand exceeds supply. We would welcome views on this issue.

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