A comparison of ticket prices on planes and trains this Christmas reveals that flying is cheaper on four-in-five routes, but much worse for the climate.
Researchers for climate group Greenpeace compared train and plane ticket prices on 22 popular routes and found flights to be consistently cheaper on 82 per cent of them.
Flying is cheaper than taking a train on four-out-of-five popular routes while an average train ticket is 3.4 times the cost of flying, a study by Greenpeace has found
A Freedom of Information request from the investigative arm of action group Greenpeace showed that, of England’s 64,000 “high consequence” flood defences,