Category Archives: UECNA

At the UK Government’s request Heathrow Airport has today (1st August) submitted plans for a 3rd runway that would result in 750 more planes a day using the airport and which would cost over £20bn with another £12bn to upgrade Terminal 5. The Government will respond in the Autumn. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/01/heathrow-submits-shovel-ready-plans-for-third-runway

It can be done. Trains can be cheaper and quicker. https://miomyitaly.com/trains-in-italy.html

Last week the EU transport ministers meeting concluded to make night trains a viable alternative to short- and medium haul flights. Here is our comprehensive action plan how to do it – unanimously concluded by our groups from nine European countries: https://buff.ly/3vU7PjF

Tired of the aircraft noise in Queens, Chris Denny moved to Long Island with his family in 2015, looking for peace and quiet in Williston Park, about 10 miles from any airport. But there was no warning that his new home would wind up right under a path for planes landing at John F. Kennedy […]

Success for residents in campaigning noise nuisances Schiphol airport has to reduce the number of take off and landing slots from the maximum of 500,00 to 440,000 per year from November 2023, the Dutch minister of infrastructure Mark Harbers confirmed on Friday. This cut of 12% cut would see traffic back at 2014 levels. The […]

The Right Track for Green Jobs: Cutting aviation emissions while boosting employment and climate-friendly travel This is an interesting new report from the UK  campaign group, Possible. It focuses on the UK but is relevant to many more countries.  The report is bursting with creative ideas on how flight numbers could be cut without negative […]

‘Charting the European Aviation recovery: 2021 COVID-19 impacts and 2022 outlook’ reads the opening of the document that contains lots of information about the performance of the aviation sector in the last years. With lots of tables about numbers of flights, emissions, airline performance, connectivity, network flows, airports and passengers, revenue losses and much more. […]