As travellers begin to turn their backs on air travel in favour of more eco-friendly options such as trains, airlines are responding to a growing sense of ‘flight shame’ among passengers by paying to offset CO2 emissions from jet fuel. Emily Eastman reports

Thanks to continued pressure from climate change activists such as Extinction Rebellion and teenager Greta Thunberg, 2019 was the year that flygskam – the Swedish concept of “flight shame” – entered common parlance. And it looks like it will be a defining term for the new decade.

In fact, a survey by Swiss bank UBS of 6,000 people in the US, Germany, France and the UK, found that one in five people (21 per cent) had cut the number of flights they took over the past year out of concern for the environmental – and that expected growth in passenger numbers could halve if this continued.

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