Tell your MP that you back the frequent flyer levy

Flying is a serious climate problem, and there's no technological solution that can scale up fast enough. The fairest and most popular way to cut emissions from air travel is to bring in a new way of taxing flights where the more someone flies, the more they pay.* 

We've put together a letter for MPs to sign to tell the government it's time for the frequent flyer levy. For MPs to get onboard, they need to know their constituents are behind them.

Will you tell your MP that you support the frequent flyer levy, and ask them to do the same? We've created a template email for you to use, but if you have time please add in your own comments too. 

To whom it may concern: 

I'm one of your constituents, and I'm getting in touch because it's really important to me that the government is more ambitious about protecting our climate. I'd like our government to cut emissions faster to help avoid dangerous climate impacts,(1) in a way that's fair to people across the UK.

Technologies to allow emissions-free flights are at best decades away from being available to passengers. There's no way to fly without producing a lot of emissions which harm the climate, so we need to cut back on flights. Just 15% of people in the UK take 70% of all the flights, while in a typical year around half of the population don't fly at all.(2) If the small group of people who take most of the flights flew less, it would be possible to cut emissions from aviation while also enabling more people to fly sometimes. 

A frequent flyer levy is a progressive aviation tax which leaves people's first flight within a given time period untaxed, and increases for each subsequent flight. It would expand access to flying and cut costs for ordinary families taking occasional holidays overseas. A frequent flyer levy would help keep aviation emissions within the UK's legally binding climate targets, without affecting most people. A frequent flyer levy was recommended by Parliament's Climate Assembly(3) and is supported by the Climate Change Committee.(4) Recent polling from BEIS found that a majority of the public are in favour of a frequent flyer levy, with fewer than one in five people opposed.(5) There's support among your voters for this too - 54% of  voters polled in 41 long-term Conservative seats want a frequent flyer levy.(6)

People need to be able to travel, but this doesn't need to be by plane. If train travel was as cheap as flying, then two thirds of people in the UK would be willing to consider moving to train travel.(7) Moving journeys to train rather than plane travel could also be better for jobs, with the potential to create around three jobs in low-carbon travel for each job lost in aviation.(8)

As your constituent, I'd really like you to represent me by supporting policies to protect our climate. Please could you add your name to the open letter calling on the government to bring in a frequent flyer levy? You can do this by sending an email to FFL@wearepossible.org. You can read the letter at https://www.wearepossible.org/aviationopenletter.

Please could you reply to let me know whether you're willing to represent my views by adding your name?

[Your comment here]

Thank you for your support,

[Your name here]

1. www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60525591
2. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/905946/nts0316.ods 
3. www.climateassembly.uk/report/read/how-we-travel-by-air.html#how-we-travel-by-air-summary-of-recommendations
4. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49808258
5. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/996578/Annex_1_Data_Tables.ods
6. www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/03/tax-flights-and-ditch-gas-boilers-blue-wall-voters-back-green-policy
7. www.wearepossible.org/s/Fare-Competition_-A-route-to-climate-friendly-travel-choices.pdf 
8. www.wearepossible.org/s/The-Right-Track-for-Green-Jobs.pdf
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