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It's the peak holiday season, but it still takes just a few minutes online and a few pounds to book a flight to Glasgow, Manchester, Dublin ... even Prague, Rome or Barcelona.

Not for much longer, though, if an influential group of MPs gets its way. Alarmed at what it sees as the government's wilful disregard of the effects of cheap air travel on global warming, the cross-party environmental audit committee will tomorrow lay out a range of proposals to get people to pay for some of the damage they do.

It may take time and, given the tangle of international agreements that govern flights overseas, it is far more likely to mean the end of bargain fares to Manchester than to Moscow (£118 this week, if you know where to look). But the aim is to shift at least some passengers from air travel to high-speed rail links. The MPs also want changes on Britain's roads, with increases in road tax, targeted road tolls and more congestion charges.

It is vital, one committee member told The Observer yesterday, that the government should factor in the environmental impact of its transport policies - something the MPs were surprised to find is not happening. There is an ambitious overall target to cut Britain's carbon emissions by 60 per cent before 2050, but no specific plan for transport - which is the biggest emissions culprit and shows every sign of getting worse.

'They don't even measure the relative emissions impact of building a new road as against a new public transport project,' the MP said.

While a national road-charging scheme to charge motorists by the mile is being piloted, its aim is to cut congestion, not to discriminate between a higher-emissions Land Rover and an environmentally less damaging Toyota Prius.

But tomorrow's report is expected to say that the main challenge is air travel. Jetting off to the Mediterranean with a budget airline can now cost less than a tankful of petrol for a 4x4. The MPs will argue that the problem has arisen because airlines don't pay tax on their fuel, because passenger duty charges have been kept unrealistically low, and because no one in the government is prepared to take on the airlines.

The Transport Secretary, Douglas Alexander, told the committee that the government was addressing the problem of airline emissions by pushing for air travel to be included in the Europe-wide emissions-trading scheme. But with many of the airlines backing that strategy, the MPs were sceptical. Their fear was that this 'soft option' would not significantly change domestic policy on air travel, despite official figures showing that transport - particularly air travel - is the only sector of the British economy whose emissions have risen since 1990.

'Given the predictions for aviation growth, transport emissions could take up our whole global target emissions, leaving no room for emissions by any other sector of the economy by 2050,' said Desmond Turner, the Labour MP for Brighton Kemptown, during the committee's questioning of Alexander.

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what is the cheapest airline that fly from Douglas airport, Charlotte, NC, USA to Cebu City, Philippines?

My fiancee is planning to visit Cebu City comes May of next year. i want to know the airline that gives a cheaper air tickets so i can advice him and to save money.

Arriving in the Philippines on China Airlines might help him because CI arrives in Manila during the daytime hours. In Manila he can use Cebu Pacific Airlines to get to Cebu. Cebu Pacific has a tight weight allowance for baggage and they charge for being over weight.

From the US he can call China Airlines reservations office and ask about a booking at 1-800-227-5118. If he intends to visit the P.I. again and again tell him to sign up for the frequent flier program so he can use all of those miles for free flights. CI doesn't fly direct from Charlotte so there would be other airlines bringing him to the first CI connection point.

If you meet him in Manila it would make getting to Cebu a little easier on the guy.

I fly to Manila on Northwest (now Delta) because it is convenient from Boston and I get a lot of perks with my frequent flier miles, but I fly overseas often. The date he chooses to fly affects his price too. If it is on a holiday, especially Christmas or New Years the flights are higher priced. After June when the kids get out of school in America the flights are higher priced. When he has a date in mind don't fall in love with that particular day because he must check a few days before and a few days after to see if the price changes. Sometimes just changing your departure day a little the price is different.

He can get free information from local travel agents in his city. He does not have to commit to any particular travel agency. He can get information for free and tell the airline he must think about it. If he can use the information to get a flight over the internet - so be it! Always ask if flying on a different date, either a little before or a little after, will the price be cheaper.

From Charlotte using Delta right now the price is around $1100 for a flight in Feb. He can use this link and just add the dates he wants to fly on. (I think he can do better than that if he checks for prices frequently.)

http://www.delta.com/index.jsp?noFlash=true

Good luck.

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