Aviation: Standards
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help reduce flight delays at major airports.
Answered by Keir Mather
The UK aviation market operates predominantly in the private sector. UK airports and airlines are therefore responsible for ensuring appropriate contingency plans are in place to minimise potential disruption. The Department regularly engages with the UK aviation sector around resilience issues and to gain assurance of their preparedness plans, including ahead of peak travel periods.
In addition, as well as making air travel cleaner and quieter, one of the major benefits of the airspace modernisation programme is greater resilience, which will help to reduce delays and disruption in the future.
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