People in the UK are getting more conscious about our dwindling environment which is getting exploited every second. Travelers have started to prefer trains over planes as there is a propaganda regarding planes emitting more carbon di oxide resulting in Global warming. Train companies like Virgin and Eurostar have been actively campaigning against air travel claiming that trains produce a tenth of carbon di oxide over the same distance traveled.

The environmental debate, backed by a green advertising campaign from Virgin Trains has especially affected Manchester Airport where Manchester-London flights have fallen by 10% over the past year.

One airline group, Jet2, a low-cost airline, dropped its London-Manchester route recently due to poor demand.

It may not be totally the atmospheric concerns that may have led to the reduction of air travel; the recent Glasgow bombings has increased the security in airports thus delaying the process of checking in.

via Malaysia Sun