An environmental group is asking for a government review of the future of the aviation industry.
Members of the Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign are calling on the Department for Transport to conduct a comprehensive review of airport expansion, instead of the progress report it was due to carry out by the end of the year.
The group says the rising cost of oil, increasing demands for tax on aviation and concern over climate change mean the department's forecast that passenger numbers would carry on growing could be flawed.
The group is campaigning against a second runway at Gatwick which could see passenger numbers rise as high as 80 million.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
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