GALBA - Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport

What's it like living under the flight path? Three people - Stephen in Cookridge, Jodi in Kirkstall and Mike in Guiseley - have made short videos to explain. You can watch them on GALBA's YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/@GALBA2026/f...

Scrapping business class could halve aviation emissions – new study Huge efficiency gains are available to airlines, without any new technologies – new study.

Here's a good idea. Scrapping business class could halve aviation emissions. But airlines makes extra profits from business class so they won't want to do it
theconversation.com/scrapping-bu...

The disappearance of the Great British holiday Our domestic tourism industry is entering a new stage of decline - with costal and countryside destinations seeing the biggest collapse

The under taxation of air travel - offered through exemption from VAT, fuel duty and carbon taxation - sends the wrong message to households, encouraging them to spend precious disposable income overseas... properly taxing air travel could raise up to £6bn
neweconomics.org/2026/02/the-...

LBA has made a new application to the Council to rewrite the night flight rules and make thousands more night flights. Bad news for local people, air quality and the climate. GALBA will fight this tooth and nail! Find out more and join us on our website: www.galba.uk/our-campaign...

If you're new to GALBA, or just want to find out what all the fuss is about, click on the link below to read about the LBA's plan for a massive increase in night time flying. More night flights would be bad news for local people, the air we breathe and our climate. www.galba.uk/our-campaign...

Check the facts about claims that airport expansion = economic growth. It really ain't that simples...

We need land to grow food, not biofuels for aviation

GALBA supports this campaign

To absolutely no one's surprise, the aviation industry admits that it isn't on track to cut its greenhouse gas emissions

Air pollution from ultra-fine particles from jet engines are all but ignored by the industry and govt - that's just wrong!

This is important for all people who live near airports that want to increase flights, especially at night

Air passengers exposed to extremely high levels of ultrafine particle pollution, study finds Levels during boarding and taxiing were far above those defined as high by the World Health Organization

Air passengers exposed to extremely high levels of ultrafine particle pollution. Levels during boarding and taxiing were far above those defined as high by the World Health Organization
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In the Netherlands, a bomb has been thrown into the garden of a well-known anti-airport expansion activist by two unknown individuals who then fled the scene, tires screeching.
Arguments seem to have given way to terror here.
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Join us - Galba

100s of people have joined GALBA since the news that the Airport said it wants to fly thousands more night flights. If you, or someone you know, aren’t a member yet, it’s free and easy to join. Just click the link below. Together we CAN stop the airport from expanding!

www.galba.uk/take-action/...

Wouldn't it be great if this happened in the UK too?

Impressive work by a community that knows how to stand together. What they say is what we say too...

Should the Government be supporting Airport Expansion? We comment on the Government response to our petition to Stop Airport Expansion

This is an excellent explanation of why the govt's headlong rush for airport expansions is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Thank you @flightfreeuk.bsky.social
substack.com/@flightfreeu...

You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires?

This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get.

Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires.

They’re for everyone.

With the upcoming budget in mind, have a look at this…

Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator

This is worth reading and sharing
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...

Join us in Leeds on Saturday 15 November. As world leaders meet in Brazil, we'll march to call for urgent action to tackle climate change and speed up a fair transition from dirty fossil fuels to the clean energy world of the future. Assemble from midday to 1pm in Merrion Street Gardens, LS2 8NG.

Govt policy is so, so, so wrong. There is no alternative to stopping airport expansions if we are at all serious about limiting climate change. That's why we're taking the govt's reckless and irresponsible Jet Zero Strategy to court www.galba.uk/our-campaign...

It's crazy - the govt knows the truth and is simply ignoring it

251017 LBA s73 application BREAKING! New LBA expansion application New LBA planning application to increase night flights expected in November Resist LBA’s new planning application! What does the airport want? How would an an...

BREAKING! New Leeds Bradford Airport expansion application due in November. That's bad news for the climate, air quality and people under the flight path. Find out more on this link:
docs.google.com/document/d/1... And join GALBA to fight LBA's irresponsible plans! www.galba.uk/take-action/...

How politicians and passengers gave up on greener air travel A renewed push for economic growth has added to technological challenges and problems with carbon offset schemes

The UK’s Climate Change Committee says aviation will be the UK’s highest emitting sector by 2040. All the targets for reducing aviation emissions are for 2050. That allows us to indulge in thinking about possibilities, rather than commercial reality. @theaef.bsky.social
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GALBA is fully behind this - let's leave a liveable world for future generations

We totally agree with @theaef.bsky.social assessment below. The govt isn't even pretending to take its climate commitments seriously in respect of aviation. They're no better than the last govt. Didn't someone say something about change during the election campaign?

Gatwick airport second runway approved by transport secretary There has been strong opposition against the airport wanting to use its northern runway.

Gatwick expansion is a dreadful decision. Greenpeace UK's policy director Doug Parr says it "completely ignores the solid evidence that increasing air travel won't drive economic growth. The only thing it's set to boost is air pollution, noise and climate emissions". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Petition: Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans across the UK More than 20 airports across the UK have expansion plans, which will result in a combined increase of 60%+ capacity. More flights means more emissions, at a time when we should be doing everything we ...

Just 8 days left to sign this Parliamentary petition calling on the govt to stop ALL airport expansions. If you haven’t already, please sign & share it today! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Shell scraps construction of biofuels plant in Rotterdam Oil firm, which paused project in 2024, will not restart work because facility deemed ‘insufficiently competitive’

At a time when governments and industry are relying on Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) scaling to meet the requirements of the mandates in the UK and the EU, Shell scraps its plans for a new ‘waste-to-jet-fuel’ plant in Rotterdam.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...