LONDON, 2014-5-9 — /Travel PR News/ — With exactly a year to the day to go before the next general election – 7 May 2015 – the Airport Operators Association (AOA), the trade body for UK airports, has published its latest position paper on aviation policy. It makes six key policy recommendations it would like to see adopted by the Government and Opposition parties in their respective general election manifestos.
These are:
1. Support sectoral growth: promote UK airports’ growth, through the Aviation Policy Framework and the Sir Howard Davies Airports Commission
2. Review and cut further all levels of Air Passenger Duty
3. Incentivise the take up of sustainable aviation fuels, to help enable ever more sustainable aviation
4. Improve surface access – rail and road – to airports through a single national transport strategy
5. Speed up planning by setting clear land-use policies in noise contours, curtailing the building of housing and other noise sensitive buildings around airports so that fewer people in future live in areas where there is aircraft noise
6. Align UK security requirements with the nature of threats
Darren Caplan, Chief Executive of the AOA, said:
For further information please contact Tim Alderslade on 0207 799 3171 or timalderslade@aoa.org.uk.
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Notes to Editors:
1. The full policy document ‘What next for aviation policy’ – which is being sent to the major political parties – can be viewed on the AOA website, at http://www.aoa.org.uk/publications/. This document updates ‘The AOA Review of the UK Government’s Aviation Policy Framework’, published in October 2013 (see http://www.aoa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/the-aoa-review-of-the-uk-governments-aviation-policy-framework-final-draft-101013-1-.pdf).
2. The Airport Operators Association (AOA) is the trade association that represents UK airports. Its mission is to see UK airports grow sustainably. It represents the views of UK airports to Government, Parliament and Regulators to secure policy outcomes that help deliver our mission. The AOA represents some 50+ UK airports in the UK. For more information, please visit www.aoa.org.uk.
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