Birmingham Friends of the Earth

Campaigns: Aviation

Spaghetti Junction in the Sky!

The Government's Department for Transport published its Air Transport White Paper on 16th December 2003. Transport Secretary Alistair Darling rejected plans for a massive new airport in the Midlands in favour of a new second runway and Main Runway extension at Birmingham International Airport. The White Paper also recommended growth at the smaller regional airports, e.g. Nottingham East Midlands, Baginton (Coventry), Wolverhampton Business Airport, and RAF Cosford.

Briefings and other documents

Aviation campaign press releases

Election candidates challenged to match green rhetoric with reality (27th Apr 2005)
Flying to the sun is costing us the Earth (11th Jun 2003)
Aircraft noise: it takes the peace! (20th Nov 2002)
Residents launch action group on airport noise (22nd Nov 2001)
Night flights fight begins as residents launch action group (21st Nov 2001)
Plane Crazy: noise protest lands on airport manager's doorstep (27th Nov 2000)

Press centre: an archive of Birmingham Friends of the Earth press releases 2000-present

Action Briefing articles 2003-6

Are you paying £300 a year for not flying? (Apr - May 2006)
Airport Update: Consultation or Imposition? (Dec 2005 - Jan 2006)
Clash of the Master Plans (Oct-Nov 2005)
Transport and Climate Change: An irresistible force meets a lot of movable objects (Oct-Nov 2005)
Making the connection: air transport and climate change (Jun-Jul 2005)
Sign the Pledge: stop airport expansion! (Oct-Nov 2004)
BIA feeling the heat (Oct-Nov 2004)
Coventry Airport update (Oct-Nov 2004)
West Midlands aviation round-up (Aug-Sept 2004)
Baginton in the bag? (June-July 2004)
Wolves Airport's double whammy (June-July 2004)
Coventry: air today, gone tomorrow (Apr-May 2004)
Airhead: Darling's Air Transport White Paper 2003 (Feb-Mar 2004)
Airports: A right plane in the Brum! (Feb-Mar 2004)
Aviation White Paper published (Feb-Mar 2004)
Air transport White Paper published (Dec 2003-Jan 2004)
Aviation: a hole in the Region's pocket (Oct-Nov 2003)
Flying to the sun is still costing us the Earth (Aug-Sept 2003)
Heathrow night flights ruling delivered (Aug-Sept 2003)
Flight Tax Tickets re-issued (Jun-Jul 2003)
June 2003: aviation month of action (Jun-Jul 2003)
How many valentines did you get this year, Minister? (Apr-May 2003)
Aviation consultation round 2 (Apr-May 2003)
Aircraft noise: it takes the peace! (Dec 2002-Jan 2003)
Aviation consultation stays open after Gatwick fiasco (Dec 2002-Jan 2003)

More Action Briefing articles in our archive.

'The Future of Air Transport' consultation (2002-3) and White Paper (Dec 2003)

Airline 'congestion charge' could yield £9 billion for public transport and safer school routes (Dec 2003)
New runway support is plane crazy (Nov 2002)
The Birmingham Alternative: same old story with a green tinge (Nov 2002)
'Warwickshire International Airport' would be HUGE!! (Sept 2002)
It Could Have Been You!! 32 sites for the new Heathrow investigated (Sept 2002)
Map of the possible developments (Sept 2002)
Briefing Sheet: Consultation on the Future of Air Transport (Aug 2002)

Midlands anti-airport expansion campaigns