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2025-10-26Britain Found A New Way To Stay Stagnant—Kill Airport Growth With Climate Laws That Don’t Change The Climate
We follow many pro-aviation web sites, which often take the form of passenger advocacy (points/miles). Many of their arguments are at least somewhat disingenuous, but not all. In this case, the fight is on to roll back hard-won regulations in Europe which now allow for limits on growth we can only dream of here. Because airport law is so different on either side of the Atlantic, we try to provide a view of the challenges (and opportunities) for airport communities everywhere. -
Victory Against All The Odds
The story of how the campaign to stop a third runway at Heathrow was won. (original version) -
Victory Against All The Odds (revised)
The story of how the campaign to stop a third runway at Heathrow was won (revised edition) -
Are emissions from aircraft harmful or not?
Both the Department for Transport and Heathrow Airport state that aircraft do not cause emissions harmful to humans on the ground when the aircraft is above 100 metres, which is well within 2 kilometres from the boundary of the airport. Heathrow gave evidence on this to the Transport Committee of the House of Commons and