Due to globalisation, a paradigm shift of people's lifestyle and expansion of tourism and international commerce, cheap and frequent flights all around the world is quite common nowadays which offers both advantages and disadvantages. In this essay, I shall examine both positive and negative aspects of such flights before drawing a reasonable conclusion. With regards to advantages, frequent flights have made the air travel affordable for many and as a consequence, more people can enjoy the fast and flexible journey. Increasing flights also expand the tourism and business opportunities and more job opportunities. Moreover, people have more places to visit, new business opportunities, avail advanced medical facilities in developed countries and learn more by travelling. The frequent travels, in a way, reduce the cultural gaps among people of different countries and bring nations together. Last but not least, many multinational companies can run their operations smoothly across cities due to easily-available air travel and this has a direct impact on creating more . On the other hand, detrimental effects of the rapid increase in air travel cannot be ignored. The amount of air pollution it causes is quite alarming. A single flight emits a huge amount of carbon dioxide to the greenhouse effect. Furthermore, airports in cities local people and increase the possibility of terrorist attacks. Many experts suggest that one way to check the negative consequences of increasing air travel is to impose more tax. Though this might seem a reasonable solution, I, however, disagree. More effective solutions like introducing eco-friendly jet fuel and tight security should be in place rather than increasing the tax which would only burden mass people to pay more for their travel. To conclude, ever-increasing air travel has some negative outcomes like air and sound pollution and . However, imposing a heavy tax is not a viable solution to this and cheap and frequent flights have facilitated people in many ways which are a timely demand of modern people.
Increase in Global Flights and Air Travel Taxation
The world has seen an enormous increase in flights for leisure, business and commercial purposes around the world over recent years. What do you think are the main advantages and disadvantages of such flights? Do you think flights should be taxed more?
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Overall assessment
Why this response received Band 6.5
The response discusses relevant advantages and disadvantages of increased air travel and clearly rejects higher flight taxes. However, the entire essay is one paragraph, which weakens organisation across the different parts of the task. Recurring agreement and article errors, together with some mechanical listing and awkward expressions, also reduce clarity.
IELTS criteria
How each score was decided
Task Response
7.0The response addresses all parts of the task, presenting clear advantages, disadvantages, and a firmly stated disagreement with higher flight taxes, with ideas developed through relevant explanation, though some supporting points remain brief.
Coherence and Cohesion
5.5The response follows a recognisable sequence from benefits to drawbacks and taxation, but the whole essay is one continuous paragraph. These distinct parts need clearer grouping, and repeated listing phrases make some transitions mechanical.
Lexical Resource
7.0Vocabulary is sufficiently flexible and mostly precise for the topic, with good use of terms like globalisation, greenhouse effect, and eco-friendly, despite occasional unnatural collocations such as employment scopes.
Grammatical Range and Accuracy
6.5A range of complex structures is used with reasonable control, but recurring errors in subject-verb agreement, articles, and phrasing slightly reduce accuracy.