Civil Aviation (Consumer Protection and Regulatory Reform) Bill [Lords]

Debate between Keir Mather and Alistair Strathern

2nd reading
Wednesday 9th September 2026 Commons Chamber

[Keir Mather]

I am being spoilt! I give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin (Alistair Strathern).

[Alistair Strathern]

My hon. Friend will probably have heard me speak at great length today—for purely good reasons—about the importance of the subsidised bus travel that Luton airport offered over the summer holidays, not just to my constituents but to anyone intending to travel from the airport in August. Might not such subsidies, as opposed to just increasing the cost of drop-offs, be a positive way to encourage people to make that modal shift and travel sustainably, and to take people out of cars and on to buses when they travel to Luton airport in the future?

[Keir Mather]

That is an intriguing idea, and I should be very glad to meet my hon. Friend to discuss it further. Of course we want to promote the use of public transport to reach our airports by as many people as possible. Let me now give way to my hon. Friend from the Transport Committee.