Holiday warning: British tourists face surging costs – 'Era of cheap flights over'

British tourists were warned the cost of holidays is on track to increase to help the Government address the risks climate change poses. Independent peer Bryony Worthington has suggested "the era of cheap flights is over" as holidaymakers have to prepare to pay for "the real cost" of travel in the face of changes in the global weather. Speaking to Channel 4 news, Baroness Worthing said: "This is going to be an issue that runs and runs because it’s so close to such a large group of people you have to think this is going to be a totemic fight.

"There is a bigger fight we need to fight, which is about getting the whole sector to take this issue seriously.

"Cheap flights, that era is over. We have to start paying for the real cost of those flights."

Theresa May announced last week plans to have the UK become the first G7 member to fully commit to cutting greenhouse gas emissions to almost zero by 2050.

For a ‘net zero’ carbon footprint, a country must be able to balance its carbon emissions with carbon removal strategies like renewable energy.

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To achieve such a result, emissions from housing, the travel industry and farming would have to be avoided completely or - in the most difficult examples - offset by planting trees or sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere.

Baroness Worthing continued: "There is going to be a huge cost to climate change happening to us.

"We need to acknowledge that with warmer temperatures runaways are going to have to be constructed differently.

"We are going into a future where the consequences of climate change are going to be felt economically."

Should Mrs May's proposal go ahead, meat-eating and flying would be impacted because of their very high carbon footprints.

The UK is the first major nation to propose this target and it has been widely praised by green groups.

But some say the phase-out is too late to protect from climate change, and others fear that the task is impossible.

The Government’s advisory Committee on Climate Change recommended the net zero target in a report in May.

The report said if other countries followed the UK, there was a 50-50 chance of avoiding the catastrophic rise of more than 1.5C by 2100.

Chancellor Philip Hammond has warned of a potential cost of £1 trillion by 2050.