Aircraft Noise Action  

The Airport's Master Plan and its business plans for the future include:

• A massive increase to 9 million passengers by 2040 (more than doubling)

• A massive increase in numbers of take-offs and landings

• A longer runway for larger aircraft to fly to more distant destinations.

• Possible increase in night flights

• Noise and the damaging effects on accelerating climate change will both increase dramatically.​​

• A recent YouGov poll found that 61% of people think that aviation expansion is wrong

• The government is happy for this destructive expansion to go ahead. – it’s basically pro flying.

• Only 1 in 14 UK flights are for business. Business travel has peaked.

• Around 80% of flights in and out of the UK are for leisure. 70% are for Brits going on holiday taking huge sums of money out of the country – a massive net loss to the economy.

• 50% of the UK population never flies. 15% of the population takes 70% of flights, 33% of these taking 6 or more flights a year.

• The increase in flights across the UK would more than wipe out any carbon savings from the government’s clean energy plans and further accelerate climate change.

• More flights = accelerated climate change, more pollution.

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