Some people think the cheap air flight gives ordinary people more freedom. However, others think the cheap air flight should be banned because it pollutes the air and brings many other problems. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

Sample Response

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In this era of technological advancements and globalisation, cheap air flight is greatly controversial as some regards it is advantageous for tourism and flexible journey, others, on the contrary, consider it as a threat to the environment. In this essay, I will examine both views and finally express my opinionopinion on that.

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On the one handOn one hand, cheap air travel has tremendously helped the tourism industry all over the world to flourish. Due to the affordable flightseconomic air flights, many middle-class people now travel to other countries to enjoy their holidays, visit relatives and travel for businessdo business tours. Compared with previous generationsCompared to the previous generations, modern people can save a great deal of time only because of the frequent and cheaper air traveltravels. This has significantly improved people’s freedom to visit different places. On top of that, the tourism industry has been able to attract internationalglobal tourists owing to the fact that people can afford air travel these daysafford the air travel these days.

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On the contrary, many people consider the cheap and frequent air travel a key factor for the environmental damages and hence they opine that these sorts of economic flyings should be banned. Their main concern is the number of aeroplanes flying every day to different destinations and the amount of pollution they causepollution they are causing to the environment. From an environmental perspectiveFrom the environmental point of view, a single flight emits a huge amount of Carbon dioxide which is a major cause of the greenhouse effectthe main reason for the greenhouse effect. No doubt the low-cost flightseconomy flights give some freedom and convenience to passengersfreedom and luxury to the passengers, but the negative impacts these cheap flights have are colossal.

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Considering both viewpoints and arguments, I would like to state that, in this modern era we cannot ban cheap air flight as it has already become the part of global tourism, trade and economy. However, we must continue conducting researchcontinue research to find alternative fuels for aircraftan alternative fuel for the aeroplanes to reduce CO2 emissions from each flightthe CO 2 emission from each flight. Scientific research can produce valuable resultsbrings us wonderful results and countries should work together to find an effective solutionfind out an effective solution to this problem.

Overall assessment

Why this response received Band 7.0

The response presents a clear position, covers both perspectives, and develops the benefits of affordable flying and its environmental cost in a logical structure. Its main limitation is the persistent use of awkward or inaccurate collocations and several grammatical slips, which reduce precision despite clear meaning. The highest-priority improvement is to use natural aviation-related vocabulary and proofread agreement, articles, and sentence boundaries.

Band score breakdown

IELTS Writing Criteria Scores

TR

Task Response

7.0
Scoring rule

Both views are addressed and a clear, relevant opinion is maintained, with generally developed support for the main ideas.

Next step

Develop the case for restricting cheap flights beyond pollution alone and support the proposed alternative-fuel solution more specifically.

CC

Coherence and Cohesion

7.0
Scoring rule

The four-paragraph response progresses logically, and its main points are easy to follow despite some formulaic linking.

Next step

Use a wider range of subtler transitions and strengthen the connection between the environmental argument and the final solution.

LR

Lexical Resource

6.5
Scoring rule

There is sufficient range to discuss tourism, mobility, emissions, and policy, but recurring unnatural collocations reduce precision.

Next step

Replace phrases such as economic flyings and air travels with natural terms such as low-cost flights and air travel.

GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

6.5
Scoring rule

A range of complex structures is attempted successfully, although agreement, article, punctuation, and clause-control errors recur.

Next step

Proofread each complex sentence for subject-verb agreement, article use, and complete clause boundaries before finalising the response.

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Some people think the cheap air flight gives ordinary people more freedom. However, others think the cheap air flight should be banned because it pollutes the air and brings many other problems. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

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