News & Blog
In this section you find current information about the aviation industry and campaigns to counter aviation. You can see all articles of one category by clicking on the yellow button with the category’s name.
Press Release: International Week of Action against Airline Advertising
Airline advertisements grounded across Europe in latest climate protest Contact: Tona Merriman, [email protected], Tel: +44 7471593736 Full photo set available here Interviews at relevant hacked advertising sites available on request. 500 advertising sites...
Anti-airport expansion activist faces continued persecution
An unbelievable ruling by the Court of Appeals has reversed the decision of the Lisbon Local Criminal Court. Last February the court acquitted Francisco Pedro, a journalist and activist of Stay Grounded member ATERRA. Pedro was initially charged after interrupting a...
Action Against Expansion of LEJ Airport Leipzig!
Transformation not Expansion! Transform LEJ recently protested against the expansion of Halle/Leipzig Airport Leipzig - On July 29, 2022 the new action and protest alliance Transform LEJ held a vigil in front of the state directorate, for opposing the expansion of the...
September 10-17 – Let’s counter aviation ads!
Let’s call out the aviation industry’s greenwashed advertisements! Take part September 10-17! Grassroots groups around Europe* will be taking action September 10 – 17 to oppose fossil fuel advertising in support of the European Citizens Initiative to #BanFossilAds....
Austrian Airlines misleads consumers about CO₂-neutral flying, Austrian advertising watchdog rules
Austrian Airlines has been reprimanded by the Austrian Advertising Council for a misleading advertisement about “CO2-neutral” flying Rotterdam/Vienna - 29.08.2022 – This summer, Austrian Airlines launched an online advertisement promoting a “CO2-neutral” flight from...
Inventory for Glasgow Agreement finds hidden airport expansion in the UK
RisingTideUK found more than 25 UK airports are expanding, with some evading usual channels of consent in the process, using a combination of methods not officially defined as expansion. Here RisingTide explains: As Members of Stay Grounded, and as part of our...
Airport Extractivist Model Tourism: Peoples’ Voices!
Governments and corporations promote airports as a sign of progress and with promises of ‘development’. In reality, the construction of airports and associated infrastructure drives people off their land, destroys livelihoods, plunders water and fertile soil and...
Climate and Aviation Campaigners Protest as Government Launches Controversial Jet Zero Strategy at Farnborough Air Show Today
Protesters against aviation expansion held inflatable winged pigs outside the entrance to the air show and held a banner saying “Jet Zero? Pigs might fly!”, to highlight fundamental problems with the government’s approach to cutting aviation’s greenhouse gas (GHG)...
Back to the Future: Rallies for the return of the Paris-Hendaye night train and connections to the Iberian Peninsula
Rallies for the return of the Paris-Hendaye night train and a more extensive night train network between Europe and the Iberian Peninsula On July 2nd, 2022 — A night train renaissance is upon us with the Austrian Night Jet up and running and a Swedish night train to...
EU ETS Revision: Civil Society Calls on EU to Stop Ignoring Two-Thirds of Aviation’s Climate Impact
EU ETS Revision: Civil Society Calls on EU to Stop Ignoring Two-Thirds of Aviation's Climate Impact EU Parliament requested monitoring of non-CO2 effects in EU ETS Directive Aviation’s non-CO2 climate effects are twice as large as that of its CO2 alone - and need to...