Key points • Royal Mail is scaling back its use of domestic air in a move that will save c.30,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year and help meet increasing customer demand for next day deliveries • Half of all the UK flights that Royal Mail operates are being discontinued in the biggest reduction yet of domestic airmail, leaving only those that are essential to deliver the next day service to every address in the UK • The first 11 flights finished in June, with three more ending on July 20 and a further four in early 2025, as part of the company’s wider modernisation and transformation programme (....)