ULEZ and drop-off charges will add £36 to the travel cost of using the UK’s biggest airport, according to a report by the Automobile Association.
In a report on Tuesday, the AA warned that holidaymakers booking late summer flights out of Heathrow are “blind” to the threat of Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) charges for driving to the airport in older cars.
The ULEZ is an area in which vehicles that do not meet certain emissions standards must pay a daily charge of £12.50 to drive or face fines. It covers four million people, around 44 percent of London’s population.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan claims his city’s air pollution-cutting scheme is needed as each year 4,000 Londoners “die prematurely each year because of long-term exposure to air pollution, with the greatest number of deaths in outer London boroughs.”…