THANK YOU to everyone who has donated so generously to our fighting fund. We've already raised half of our target! If you haven't given yet, you can donate via our JustGiving crowdfunder appeal: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Stop airport expansion! GALBA needs to raise £25,000 to stop LBA flying thousands more night flights. More flights = bad for the climate, local people and air quality. Any donation, big or small, will help us fight this case. PLEASE DONATE and share this appeal! www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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...

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 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. 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. cloud.stay-grounded.org/s/sK5fePZRRP...

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...

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…

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...

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/...

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 www.ft.com/content/4e8d...

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 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...

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...

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...

So-called 'sustainable' aviation fuel is not going to get flying to net zero. Right now, the only way to cut emissions from flying is to fly less. Please sign and share this petition to STOP ALL AIRPORT EXPANSIONS! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... Shell abandons SAF: nltimes.nl/2025/09/03/s...

This is the reality of climate change. This is why we must not let airports expand

Galba is holding Leeds Bradford Airport to account over its unauthorised noisy night flights. This is why it matters …https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/whats-up-docs/id1803347615

If it takes the demise of Bakewell tarts to get the Telegraph on board, so be it

Great to see letters from @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social and @galba.uk in the Guardian pushing back against Heathrow Expansion 💪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

GALBA calls for a backbench rebellion against Heathrow expansion in the Guardian newspaper www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The signatories of this letter to the Chancellor, including 16 professors of economics at top UK universities, have described the claimed economic benefits of airport expansion as ​“at best uncertain”. neweconomics.org/2025/08/econ...

Stop Heathrow and all other airport expansions! Please sign the petition below and share it with your friends

“The numbers should be taken with a pinch of salt. Similar figures were promoted last time round and were later discredited by the government’s own advisers.” Economist Alex Chapman on Heathrow’s third runway & the economic case behind it. www.itv.com/news/2025-07...

Heathrow and other airport expansions are justified by their alleged economic benefit. But it ain’t true! Read on to find out why neweconomics.org/2025/01/opti...

Victory!

Yes! We did it!

Please sign & share this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... and watch the video below

Good news from GALBA! We've stopped Leeds Bradford Airport from flying an unlimited number of planes at night. We won the Public Inquiry into their attempt to reinterpret the local night flight rules. It doesn't mean the end of night flights but it will limit them. www.galba.uk/our-campaign...

The aviation industry is desperate to convince us that clean flying is just around the corner. So-called sustainable aviation fuel is key to their case. But we can use the raw materials for SAF much more effectively to clean up other sectors. Have a read of this… www.aef.org.uk/2025/07/18/i...

“The torrential downpours on 4 July in Texas exemplify the devastating outcomes of weather intensified by a warming atmosphere”. We'll see more of these disasters if we keep on pumping out emissions. Please sign & share this petition NO AIRPORT EXPANSIONS! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Interesting ideas here - implementing a fair tax on aviation, developing truly zero emission fuels (which so-called Sustainable Aviation Fuel is not), changing the way we fly long haul in the future... But right now, the only thing we can do is fly less - not more www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If the risk of a plane crashing was as high as the risk of climate breakdown, none of us would ever fly because they would not let the plane take off. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here's another jolly good idea...