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Airports towns like Luton and Hounslow are suffering as people fly less often – here's how to help them

  • Written by Ed Atkins, Lecturer, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
Airports towns like Luton and Hounslow are suffering as people fly less often – here's how to help themThousands of aircraft were grounded during the pandemic. Now research is showing people might fly lessJetKat/Shutterstock

Tens of thousands of aircraft have been grounded for well over a year due to the pandemic. In April 2020 air travel around the world was cut by 94% from April 2019. By June 2021 it was still 60% down on June 2019 thanks to...

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