Air Travel
In air travel there has been a massive growth in international tourism over the last 50 years,
it is closely linked to the growth in air travel. Air travel has increased competition between airlines and it has helped to keep fares low on an expanding network of router. People choose to travel by Aeroplane or helicopter because they believe that it will get them to the destination quicker, for example if you want to travel overseas to Italy the best form of travel is air because it is more beneficial to you. Britain has a number of world class airlines e.g. British Airways, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Easy Jet, BMI etc. |
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Types of Air Travel
Underneath you will find different definitions which are very important, so learning this will help you massively:
Domestic- Air travel within a country, for example flying from Manchester to London Gatwick.
International flights- These are flights between different countries, for example London Heatherow to New York.
Scheduled- Services that run to a published time-table (this includes low-cost airlines)
Charter- Services linked to a packaged holidays where tour operators contract with an airline for a specific route for a season, for example Manchester to Greece between Easter and the end of October.
Airports
Traffic at UK regional airports is growing rapidly due to the result of the increasing number of flights offered by the low-cost airlines (Ryanair, flybe, easyJet, Jet2, bmibaby), in 2009 UK airports handled 218 million passengers. Traffic at the 5 main London airports- Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and London City- totaled 130 million passengers, additionally Heathrow was the UK's busiest airport with 66 million passengers. This here shows how popular air travel is and how much people enjoy travelling by air.