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- Tell world leaders Copenhagen wasn't good enough for the climate
- Call for an end to investment in Trident
- Design an activist stronghold to stop the third runway at Heathrow
- Tell your MP to change the politics and save the climate
- Become a member of Airplot and stand in the way of a third runway
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BBC: Protesters buy up Heathrow land
Land earmarked for the construction of Heathrow's third runway has been bought by anti-expansion protesters.
When advert meets reality
Posted by saunvedan on 10 December 2008.
This time its coming from British Airways and not us. You'd have to assume that BA and BAA simply can't see the irony in this video - but showing Terminal 5 under water (given the amount of emissions their short haul flights are causing) looks like a glimpse of the underwater future that we'll all be swimming in if we don't start cutting back on CO2 emissions - starting with aviation. Maybe they're subconsciously admitting that they are a major cause of the problem...
Read more »BA reprimanded for lying to its customers
Posted by jossc on 11 January 2008.
You may remember that a few weeks ago we ran a story about British Airways emailing the members of its Executive Club (who number in the tens of thousands) asking them to sign a petition supporting the proposed third runway at Heathrow Airport.
In it, BA chairman Willie Walsh made the rather remarkable assertion that the massive increase in traffic wouldn't increase emissions in climate change gases. According to Mr Walsh, the fact that airliners would spend less time queuing for take-off and landing spots would reduce CO2 emissions by 330,000 tonnes a year, a figure which the email implied had been endorsed by the government.
Read more »An email from British Airways
Posted by jamie on 27 November 2007.
Thanks to marcus for letting us know about an email that's been sent from British Airways to members of its Executive Club. In it, CEO Willie Walsh appeals to members' sense of loyalty - nay, duty - and asks them to support a third runway at Heathrow. He's even provided an easy online petition to sign - how sweet is that?
He makes no mention of how vital a third runway is supposed to be for the UK economy which is curious, seeing as it's the drum government ministers have been beating recently. Instead, he plays on the drubbing Heathrow's customer service has received in the press by insisting that a third runway will make the "customer experience" that much more comfortable.
Read more »Say no to a third runway at Heathrow
Posted by jossc on 8 November 2007.
Campaign news updates:
Airfixed! Why the government's consultation on Heathrow is a sham
London mayoral candidates unite against Heathrow expansion
Want to make a noise about Heathrow expansion? Follow our advice on how to make a submission to the consultation process
Read more »10 reasons to stop Heathrow expansion
Posted by jossc on 2 November 2007.
- Heathrow is already Europe's largest airport [i]: adding a third runway will mean a 70 per cent[ii] increase in flight numbers and resulting rises in climate change pollution. It's crazy to be paving the way for such big increases in greenhouse gases when we should be doing all we can to reduce emissions.
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Greenpeace gives away free train tickets at airports across the UK
Posted by bex on 19 June 2007.

UPDATE (9.25am): The booths have now all been moved by security.
Over the past hour or so, impromptu ticket exchange booths have been appearing in airports across the UK.
Greenpeace volunteers (fetchingly dressed as stewards and stewardesses - pics here) have been offering BA passengers checking into domestic flights climate-friendly train tickets.
Read more »Change your ticket, not the climate
Posted by bex on 22 March 2007.

Greenpeace volunteers set up a climate ticket exchange in Gatwick airport
Passengers queuing for BA's first domestic flight between Gatwick and Newquay are being offered an upgrade with a difference today: the chance to exchange their plane tickets for climate-friendly train tickets.
BA's new domestic route, opened today, isn't just irresponsible given what we know about climate change - it's also completely unnecessary. If you take into account the time and cost of travel to airports and checking in, travelling by plane works out to be more expensive than train, only a little quicker and ten times more damaging to the climate.
Read more »Flying in the face of reason?
Posted by jamie on 21 March 2007.
Climate change - you can't open a paper or watch the news without banging your head against it, right? So obviously the message is getting through - our major companies are tripping over themselves in the rush to proclaim their green credentials and how keen they are to take 'corporate responsibility' for their business. Well - up to a point. In the case of our national air carrier, self-appointed 'world's favourite airline' British Airways, up to the point of actually doing anything about it.

