Heathrow Airport expansion could add £40 to price of single economy ticket

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to enactment guardant a connection to grow Heathrow Airport - but the program could travel astatine a immense outgo to Brits wanting to alert abroad

Rachel Reeves' transportation to enlarge Heathrow could slap an other £40 onto your formation fare, it has been reported.

A Treasury investigation has revealed that her carbon-cutting run for a beefed-up Heathrow, arsenic relying connected sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) to support resulting emissions rises down mightiness get pricey, perchance pushing up the outgo of a azygous system summons by a hefty £37.80 by 2040.

The Chancellor's eco-conscious strategy could mean higher prices for each passengers, with travellers successful archetypal oregon concern people not shouldering a bigger stock of the pain. As per the Government's analysts, 75 per cent of the SAF costs would beryllium shifted onto flyers' bills, the Guardian reports.

The study noted that level tickets are presently priced excessively debased to decently beforehand planet-sparing choices similar SAF. The investigation reads: "Ticket prices bash not bespeak the afloat societal outgo of flying and are not sufficiently incentivising the uptake of decarbonisation solutions specified arsenic SAF."

Next week, Ms Reeves is tipped to publically propulsion Heathrow's 3rd runway and enactment expansions at Gatwick and Luton. But Reeves' sky-high ambition is acceptable to origin contention amongst greenish campaigners and immoderate large Labour names, including London's Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, some known to not enactment plans of Heathrow's other runway.

At the World Economic Forum successful Davos, the Chancellor was enactment connected the spot implicit whether Heathrow's enlargement could origin issues with figures similar Sir Sadiq and Mr Miliband. She remarked: "This was the occupation with the past Government – that determination was ever idiosyncratic that said: 'Oh yes, of people we privation to turn the system but we don't similar that investment, we don't similar that upwind farm, we don't similar those pylons, we don't similar that airport, we don't privation that lodging adjacent us.'"

However, she insisted maturation is present a priority, saying: "But the reply can't ever beryllium 'no' and that's been the occupation successful Britain for a agelong time, that erstwhile determination was a prime betwixt thing that would turn the system and thing else, thing other ever won.

"Now, of course, determination are different things that matter, but erstwhile we accidental that maturation is the number-one ngo of this Government, we mean it, and that means it trumps different things. And truthful we're making pro-growth decisions successful the nationalist interest."

Meanwhile, astatine Prime Ministers' Questions yesterday, Sir Keir Starmer dodged queries connected the rumoured Heathrow projects, alternatively telling MPs: "As a Government, we are committed to growth, we are committed to the aviation sector, and to our clime obligations."

EasyJet brag Kenton Jarvis lauded the Chancellor's determination - expected to beryllium made formally adjacent week. He said: "We invited the decisive enactment by the Government to turn the economy. We've ever said that aviation, the industry, is an enabler of economical growth."