Government looks to tackle flight cancellations as holidays at risk
- The UK government is introducing measures to protect British families' summer holidays amid a significant rise in jet fuel costs, which have approximately doubled since the Iran war.
- Ministers will relax 'use it or lose it' flight slot rules, enabling airlines to cancel less popular routes, such as business flights, without incurring penalties.
- This initiative aims to reduce overall demand for aviation fuel and prevent last-minute cancellations of holiday flights, offering greater certainty for travellers.
Tediously familiar and all part of the 'Not our fault' narrative. 'Use it or lose it' has political relevance to any headline problem from which governments can both distance itself and virtuously meddle at the same time.
It's the mania for micro-managing everything, every little detail of daily life and there is not the slightest sign of it slowing down.
3 comments:
It's uncanny how everything is always someone else's fault ... it can never be a decision taken higher up at fault.
(i) Has it announced the cancellation of private flights by our corruptocrat PM?
(ii) Most British oil refineries have closed due to the antics of Weird Ed in Brown's time, and his successors in office. So there must be lots of tank farms that we could have used to store a strategic reserve of refined products.
James - it reminds me of that Monty Python sketch "Dead Bishop on the Landing" where in response to the murder, Eric Idle says "Society is to blame" and we all know what he is parodying.
dearieme - I must remember "corruptocrat". The closure of British oil refineries ought to be a prominent political issue by now, but most media outfits play along with the official narrative as the easy story and generally ignore the chance to do some research into the recent past. Quick and cheap wins presumably.
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