Tag: Air Travel

Net Zero targets aimed at encouraging airlines to use so-called green aviation fuel are driving fraud "at a mass scale" and deforestation, campaigners have said.

Green evangelist Justin Welby has been accused of hypocrisy for racking up 48,000 air miles while simultaneously urging his congregations to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions.

There's been no increase in air turbulence accidents for 30 years, according to official figures. But that didn't stop the Guardian and BBC claiming otherwise in their reporting on the Singapore Airlines incident.

Nobody thought of asking politicians to alter the weather or blaming humans for the wind and rain, says retired B747 Captain James Leary. Turbulence in a monsoon was just expected.

The BBC has blamed the Singapore airline turbulence incident – in which one man died of a heart attack and at least 30 were injured – on, wait for it, climate change.

All around the world airports are being built and enlarged in countries which appear to realise the 'climate crisis' is just a load of nonsense. But not in poor, gullible Britain.

A family that gave up flying in 2002 planned an elaborate trip from East Pennard to Australia by land and sea, but ended up flying the last part of the journey anyway.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is facing accusations of hypocrisy for accumulating over 430,000 air miles since 2016 – enough to fly around the world 17 times – despite advocating for environmental causes.

France has banned short-haul flights where people are 'able to get a train instead'. Banning convenience to 'save the planet' – get used to it guys, this is just the start if they can get away with it.

"No flying by 2050" – the reality of what Net Zero really means still seems to take people by surprise, but perhaps they are now starting to wake up, writes Professor Norman Fenton.