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Grant Shapps: 'UK aviation must transform its environmental impact if it is to be viable'

Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Transport

20 October 2020 •

Transport Secretary's speech to the aviation industry on building back greener and more resilient from the Covid-19 crisis

For airlines, airports, the supply chain, and of course the aviation workforce, it's simply been a devastating year. There's no other way to describe it. We know how much the sector is hurting. That's...

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