"Four Greenpeace volunteers have climbed on top of a plane at Heathrow
and are wrapping a banner around the tailfin. The plane - one fo 32
flights every day between London and Manchester - had just arrived in
Heathrow and the passengers had disembarked when four volunteers
walked through the double doors at Heathrow Terminal One, crossing an
area of tarmac and climbing onto the fuselage of the British Airways
flight.
100,000 flights a year go between Heathrow and destinations that are
easily reachable by train (the most popular destination is Paris -
easily reachable by the Eurostar). And, looking at the price of train
travel in Britain, it's understandable that some people are still
choosing to fly. If the £9 billion tax subsidies the aviation industry
receives to make flying cheaper and airports bigger were spent on
making trains cheaper and better, we could reduce the environmental
impact of Heathrow instead of vastly increasing it."
Full story:
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/climate-campaigners-bring-peaceful-protest...
