Aircraft Noise Action  

Office for National Statistics figures show that flying dominates the market for UK residents travelling abroad and for visitors coming to the UK with well over 80% of the market share in both cases. UK residents travelling abroad by air in 2024 totalled 80.5 million outbound vs 32.5 million inbound visitors. The UK outbound total is 2.5 times greater than for visitors to the UK. All of which shows why and how aviation, leisure aviation in particular, is helping to drain mone

The government's Climate Change Committee  has questioned the economic benefits of airport expansion, saying that there is no evidence to support the assertion that aviation is essential to the UK economy. Recent work from the New Economics Foundation reinforces that position and similarly questions the lack of evidence - see the press release here The truth is that UK aviation is a largely leisure-based industry has delivered little benefit to the UK economy for a very long

What's true for the 3rd runway at Heath row and for expansion at other UK Airports is true for the expansion plans of Newcastle Airport. See the press release here Open letter (19th Feb 2026 - see it here ) sent to the government’s independent climate advisors, the Climate Change Committee, from two key environmental organisations lays bare the incompatibility of airport expansion – including a third runway at Heathrow – with UK climate targets Niall Toru, senior lawyer at F

Noise: " In recent years, ongoing work by the academic and medical community has revealed the true health impacts of exposure to excessive environmental noise. Far from being a problem only for easily-dismissed “noise sensitive” people, an increasing body of academic research is showing that noise impacts all of us, whether we realise it or not.  " Pollution: " Aircraft release a cocktail of air pollutants, including NOx, sulphur, volatile organic compounds and particulate ma

In 2018, we pressed the Airport to take a serious look into options for respite from noise especially to the West where takeoffs happen for 70% of the year. Consultants were commissioned to produce a report on options which they presented to the Airport in 2019. We haven't been allowed to see it but we understand that there are commercial reasons why it remains confidential. Here is a pdf of the consultant's presentation. The Airport did a presentation at the same time expl

In order to halt aviation’s continued and accelerating contribution to climate change, we need to halt airport expansion NOW

More than 20 UK airports are expanding massively, making accelerating climate change far worse. Sign the petition to stop this!

Flying looks like a nice easy way to go on holiday and have weekends away. But - and we've said it many times - for reasons of noise,...

We think that, when the Airport states an aircraft's altitude in thousands of feet, it can be misleading (not deliberately) because...