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GATWICK 2nd RUNWAY APPROVED!
Gatwick is already the second busiest airport in the UK.
More flights, more noise and air pollution…
#FlyingToExtinction ✈️

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Gatwick second runway given green light by government
The northern runway already exists parallel to the main one, but cannot be used at the same time as it is too close. The £2.2bn expansion project will bring it 12 metres further away to facilitate 100...
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September 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
xroxford.org
✈️ It’s time to ban the use of private jets! ✈️

Chris Packham explains some of the stats & facts at Oxford Airport:

13,744 private jet flights in 2024

28% were empty 😳😡

🛩️ ❌No to private jet use

🛩️ ❌ No to Airport expansion

#climateemergency #privatejets #airportexpansion #FlyingtoExtinction
July 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
xruk-actions.bsky.social
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has approved the expansion of #LutonAirport despite Planning Inspectorate recommendations that it should be rejected because of the environmental impact.
#FlyingToExtinction

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Architects illustration of new Luton Airport terminal building
April 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
extinctionrebellion.uk
These airport expansion plans are #greenwash of the highest order!

“We’re often told that airport expansion is good for jobs, however the biggest threat to job security is #climatebreakdown" - Todd Smith, a former Gatwick pilot & former #ExtinctionRebellion spokesperson

#FlyingtoExtinction #ActNow
neweconomics.bsky.social New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · Jan 22
Expanding airports are not a silver bullet for economic growth - and the damage it would incur is massive.

@chaitanyakumar in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Screengrab from Guardian. Text reads: Chaitanya Kumar, the head of environment policy at the New Economics Foundation thinktank, questioned the chancellor’s apparent faith in airport expansion as a means of generating growth, however. “Expanding our airports will not produce the economic growth that Rachel Reeves so desperately wants. The government’s plan suggests they haven’t done their homework or they would know that more airport capacity will neither bring us benefits from more business travel or money from international tourists,” he said.
January 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
xruk-actions.bsky.social
Well. Keir Starmer has changed his tune. Expanding #Heathrow would be a disaster for us all, a desperate, misjudged effort to boost economic growth. He knows, as does Rachel Reeves that airport expansion in the face of #ClimateBreakdown is #FlyingToExtinction
Screenshot of 2020 tweet by Keir Starmer explaining why he voted against Heathrow Expansion, congratulating climate campaigners and acknowledging the truth of the climate emergency .
January 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
xrbrighton.bsky.social
No 2nd Runway @Gatwick @Luton ❌️🛩 We're not #FlyingtoExtinction
No Growth on a Dead Planet 🌎

bylinetimes.com/2024/12/18/c...
December 18, 2024 at 3:12 PM
grannysgreenhouse.bsky.social
On World Children’s Day is it the right time for older people like me to ask “What do I love more, my grandchildren or my holidays?”
#ClimateCrisis
#WorldChildrensDay
#NoPlanetB
#FlyingToExtinction
November 20, 2024 at 11:59 AM
joinedupthinker.bsky.social
Anyone else woken by the sound of the first planes approaching Heathrow over north London before 6 am? I can only imagine how bad it must be in west London. Please can we just stop #FlyingToExtinction
August 26, 2024 at 5:03 AM