News / Air freight interests 'getting swamped' as debate on UK airports gets more political

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Howard Davies’s Airports Commission is considering the UK’s urgent lack of airport capacity only from the passenger perspective, Chris Welsh, director of global and European policy at the Freight Transport Association, told Multimodal’s first air freight seminar, organised in conjunction with The Loadstar, yesterday.

Almost 40% of UK imports and exports are transported by air, but cargo’s interests were getting “swamped” in what was turning into a highly politicised debate, Mr Welsh said.

Few companies were prepared to put their heads above the ...