The UK government is set to unveil the UK Airspace Design Service (UKADS), which will revamp the country’s flight paths that have remained unchanged for 70 years. The initiative intends to streamline air travel, particularly around London, by allowing planes to take off and land more efficiently. This modernization aims not only to lessen delays and enhance passenger experience but also to mitigate aviation's environmental impact and facilitate new technologies. Despite the potential benefits, local community groups express concerns over new flight paths impacting previously unaffected residential areas.
Cagne, a community aviation and environment group for Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, has warned the plans could mean there would be new flight paths over houses that are not currently affected.
‘Modernising our airspace is also one of the simplest ways to help reduce pollution from flying and will set the industry up for a long-term, sustainable future,’ said the Aviation Minister, Mike Kane.
The changes would allow the largest re-design of UK airspace since it was first formed in the 1950s, at which time there were only around 200,000 flights a year.
Tim Alderslade, the head of trade body Airlines UK, said the changes to UK airspace were ‘long overdue’. ‘We look forward to working with ministers and all parts of UK aviation to complete a once in a generation infrastructure programme.’
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