{"id":17465,"date":"2017-11-08T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=17465"},"modified":"2017-11-08T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T16:00:19","slug":"flights-between-cardiff-and-anglesey-should-be-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/flights-between-cardiff-and-anglesey-should-be-scrapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights between Cardiff and Anglesey &#8220;should be scrapped&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cardiff Friends of the Earth\u00a0say\u00a0funding for flights between Cardiff and Anglesey should be scrapped if Wales is to reduce carbon emissions.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Julian Rosser from\u00a0the environment group Cardiff Friends of the Earth says the Welsh Government should stop subsidising flights between\u00a0North and South Wales.\u00a0The flights receive subsidies from the Welsh Government despite upcoming targets to reduce carbon\u00a0emissions in\u00a0Wales\u00a0by 40% in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The service was\u00a0established by the Welsh Government in 2007 to improve transport links and to support the economic development of north-west Wales. Last year over\u00a0ten thousand\u00a0people travelled on\u00a0the route operated by\u00a0Eastern Airways. There are 2 return flights every weekday in the morning and late afternoon which tend to be booked up fast and far in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rosser the Joint-Coordinator of Cardiff Friends of the Earth says there isn&#8217;t &#8220;any reason for there to be regular\u00a0scheduled flights from North to South Wales. The Welsh Government should be scrapping that subsidy and spending the money on something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says the Government aren&#8217;t doing enough to meet their targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and the funding for these flights are a part of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Transport emissions have risen for two years in a row in Wales.\u00a0Mr Rosser says &#8220;we need stronger action from the Government to\u00a0help people travel in a more environmentally friendly way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0flights\u00a0have made travelling to Anglesey easier than taking the train. A return flight can cost \u00a365 and take 1 hour but in comparison a return train ticket\u00a0will cost anything up to \u00a3175 and take nearly 5 hours. Some travellers have even\u00a0said that a single ticket can be as cheap as \u00a320 if booked far enough in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Rosser says &#8220;the Government really needs to reprioritise climate change and see it as a top priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No one from the Welsh Government were available for interview.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff Friends of the Earth\u00a0say\u00a0funding for flights between Cardiff and Anglesey should be scrapped if Wales is to reduce carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[1425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17465"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17788,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17465\/revisions\/17788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}