Course correction? Government plots UK airspace revamp to cut flight times, noise and CO2

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Department for Transport (DfT) launches consultation over plans to upgrade airspace design to make flights cleaner and faste

Proposals to redesign how UK airspace is used by the aviation industry for the first time in 70 years have been set out in a consultation launched today by the Department for Transport (DfT), which said...

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