{"id":114490,"date":"2019-10-14T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/14\/air-miles-should-be-axed-to-deter-frequent-fliers-advises-report\/"},"modified":"2019-10-14T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T23:37:00","slug":"air-miles-should-be-axed-to-deter-frequent-fliers-advises-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=114490","title":{"rendered":"Air miles should be axed to deter frequent fliers, advises report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK climate body says policy would target heavy users but not penalise occasional flyersAir miles schemes should be axed as they encourage jetsetters to take extra flights in a bid to maintain \u201cprivileged traveller status\u201d, according to a report commissioned by the government\u2019s climate change advisers.An \u201cescalating Air Miles Levy\u201d should also be introduced to rein in the number of trips taken by frequent flyers, without penalising those taking an annual holiday, with the income raised to be invested into low-carbon aviation technology. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/oct\/14\/air-miles-should-be-taxed-to-deter-frequent-fliers-advises-report\" target=\"_blank\">Air miles should be axed to deter frequent fliers, advises report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK climate body says policy would target heavy users but not penalise occasional flyersAir miles schemes should be axed as they encourage jetsetters to take extra flights in a bid to maintain \u201cprivileged traveller status\u201d, according to a report commissioned by the government\u2019s climate change advisers.An \u201cescalating Air Miles Levy\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}