Since 1970, international tourism has exploded, from less than 200 million arrivals to almost 1.5 billion today. This was only possible due to the even larger growth of aviation, with billions of passengers carried every year. 1/5

Airport expansion does not create economic growth. It threatens people, planet, and prosperity. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Night flights disrupt sleep, harm health, and are powerful climate bombs 🚨 Join our webinar to explore local impacts & global climate injustice, and how communities worldwide are taking action. 🗓️ Sept 23 | ⏰ 19:00–20:00 CET 🔗 Register: actionnetwork.org/forms/sleepl...

Night flights = climate bombs & noise machines ✈️💣 💥 On 13 Sept, people across 12 countries stood up for our right to sleep. From Austria to South Korea, neighbours & climate justice groups took action to #BanNightFlights. 📣 Add your voice 👉 actionnetwork.org/forms/ban-ni... 1/4

‼️ Join 200+ organisations to #BanNightFlights 👉 actionnetwork.org/forms/ban-ni... Today, people in 10 countries are taking action for our right to sleep & a safe climate. Night flights are unnecessary, harmful & fueling climate chaos. Time to end them.

Ban night flights, stop airport expansions. We stand with communities in Ireland impacted by harmful night flights. Kids need adequate rest for their well-being. They also need urgent climate action from aviation, to help protect their futures.🌎 #RedLinesForAirports @staygroundednet.bsky.social

Tired of being woken early by the first plane of the day? We are. Join us in supporting a ban on #NightFlights: stay-grounded.org/ban-night-fl... #BanNightFlights #RedLinesForAirports #StayGrounded @staygroundednet.bsky.social

Educate yourself to harms of aviation. #NATS vectoring exposes communities to unmonitored noise outside flight paths. These areas are outside official noise contouring assessments. Useful information to extend learning @uecna.bsky.social @staygroundednet.bsky.social stay-grounded.org/wp-content/u...

Amazing news from our comrades in Korea! 🪿 Let's keep strong in solidarity! Together, we show how people power across borders will stop the ongoing destruction made in the name of profit & build a world centered on the well-being of all living creatures! #RedLinesForAirports

Stop construction and expansion of airports, and degrow aviation. Frivolous emissions, in large part, in the face of a rapidly degenerating worldwide climate. Take note, 👇. #flyingless @staygroundednet.bsky.social

Apply now! ✊🔥 The Stay Grounded Action Pot has funds left this year – up to €1000 to support actions resisting airports and aviation expansion. Groups from the Global South are especially encouraged to apply. You don’t need to be a member of our network. Spread the word! stay-grounded.org/actions

The Saemangeum Airport project threatens one of the most important wetlands on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, a vital habitat for countless migratory birds and a shared natural heritage. Solidarity with the struggle in Korea! news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

And yet Delta Air Lines paid $0 to dump 60.6 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ into the atmosphere in 2024.

Royal Caribbean wants to turn Mahahual (Mexico) into a massive private cruise "destination". This means: ❌ Ecological destruction ❌ More air traffic & cruise ships ❌ Locals pushed out Residents are resisting ✊🏾 support them here: www.change.org/p/claudiashe...

Economy flight passengers in the US are paying for private jets in the US. This is a complete injustice - kudos to the Times for covering it 👏 /https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010331153/private-planes-faa.html?smid=url-share

Actually, a regulated downturn in cruise tourism is starting, in Hawaii's Dept of Transport's new draft plan to reduce transport sector emissions. 50% cut in cruise by 2030 (incl. 75% for ships >3000 passengers). By 2035, 75% cut overall & no ships >3000 pax. hidot.hawaii.gov/wp-content/u... 1/2

Tourism is killing us twice: workers collapsing in deadly heat, and planes pumping out the emissions that drive it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Night flights = climate damage + sleepless nights It’s time for airports to implement curfews. 160+ groups call for the International Day for the Ban of Night Flights at Airports on 13 Sept. 👉 Sign declaration & take action: stay-grounded.org/ban-night-fl... #BanNightFlights#RedLinesForAirports

Tilak Bahadur Jimba tells us how local communities take care of the forest and water. The Nepali government is promoting the construction of Nijgadh international airport without their consent and they will fight back against this destructive mega-project. #RedLinesForAirports

The irony is clear. But it’s our lives that are at stake. If we don't intervene, aviation will keep chasing profit until it self-destructs, taking us all with it. We need to draw red lines. We need to dismantle aviation now, to make way for a livable future.

Dutch rebels started a campsite in front of KLM (a fine holiday without flying!) to denounce their frequent flying programmes! ✊⛺️

Airlines’ green pledges...are still on the ground. From so-called SAF to refinery closures and a wide array of false promises, the industry's flight to net-zero is running on fumes, showing what we already know: the only green plane is a grounded plane. www.reuters.com/graphics/AVI...

One month ago, we were in Barcelona, Mexico City, Bangalore & online, to form new alliances and build strategies to move beyond aviation, tourism & capitalism ❤️‍🔥 📽️ Check out the longer conference video: youtu.be/uNkXcziwNR8?... 📃 Read our blog post: stay-grounded.org/wrap-up-conf...

By supporting the expansion of Heathrow Airport and spreading outright lies about decarbonising flying, Labour has again capitulated to lobbyists. This is its defining characteristic: doing whatever powerful lobbyists ask, regardless of the social, environmental and even political costs.

People are working overtime under intense heat to complete works on an airport...to serve COP30 🫠

It's about time #Seattle does something about about the senseless pollution the #blueAngels bring to the city during #SeaFair!

🔥 HUGE NEWS FROM THE WORLD'S HIGHEST COURT 🔥 Today the International Court of Justice (ICJ) confirmed that, under international law, countries MUST act now to avoid climate catastrophe. 🧵 @wy4cj.bsky.social

Like planes, cruise ships are engines of climate destruction and touristification. They have no place in a world on fire. #StayGrounded #BanLuxuryEmissions

✈️🌙 Congrats to @galba.uk for the win against Leeds Bradford Airport’s proposal to allow noisier night flights. We need to press on for further limits on aviation for healthy communities and a climate-just future. #RedLinesForAirports #BanNightFlights

"We've been here since 1975." ✊🏽 Prem Bahadur Gole from Tangiya village in Nepal defends his land and forest against the proposed airport project that brings only displacement and destruction. #RedLinesForAirports #NoAirportExpansion

✈️ So-called “sustainable tourism” is still fossil tourism, hiding the climate, social and territorial violence behind the touristification and aviation growth. 📖 Read this powerful piece: www.eldiario.es/illes-balear...

📢 GOOD NEWS! From April 2026, a new night train will allow you to snooze from Switzerland to Sweden, via Germany & Denmark! 🚄💤 This is the kind of solution we need for a grounded future, with much less planes and more trains 🚫✈️ nightride.com/en/blog/all-...

The weird thing is that this is yet another claim by politicians where no actual reason needs to be given anymore. Why does air travel "have to be" cheap? Most people actually never fly. And why does rail travel not "have to be cheap"?

✈️ Aviation is already highly subsidised and gets a free pass on jet fuel and VAT on international flights. Air traffic tax is the bare minimum. But now, Germany wants to reduce it. 👉 Sign the petition against this policy step back: chng.it/sGQYFgV8Nz

🚨 RED LINES FOR AIRPORTS! Stay Grounded supporters from around Europe joined locals in Barcelona to oppose the planned expansion of Barcelona El-Prat. This action was organised by @zeroportbcn.bsky.social to coincide with the end of our international strategy conference.

We're in Barcelona, where the Catalan Government recently announced they will expand the airport. NOW is the moment for us to show the people of Barcelona we are with them. That we are an international movement against airport expansion: actionnetwork.org/forms/no-to-...

I was glad to contribute to @staygroundednet.bsky.social conference today with a short input presentation on stopping airport expansion

We're in Barcelona, where the Catalan Government recently announced they will expand the airport. NOW is the moment for us to show the people of Barcelona we are with them. That we are an international movement against airport expansion: actionnetwork.org/forms/no-to-...

Join the open event about aviation & touristification on Saturday, during our conference Beyond Aviation, Tourism & Capitalism ✈️🏖️🚫 📍 Barcelona & online 🧸 Bring your kids–we'll have childcare 👉🏽 Full conference programme: www.stay-grounded.org/strategy-con... @zeroportbcn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

A new coalition has just launched to work towards raising climate finance from premium flyers (first and business class tickets, and private jets). The coalition includes France, Kenya, Barbados, Spain, Somalia, Benin, Sierra Leone and Antigua & Barbuda. @staygroundednet.bsky.social

NEW | Just 3% of population cause quarter of aviation emissions. Our new report with @neweconomics.bsky.social calls for tax reform so ultra-frequent flyers taking six or more flights a year pay for their pollution. Read more 👉 www.wearepossible.org/our-reports/...

Who is benefitting from this government's airport expansion drive? ✈️ Meet... the ultra-frequent flyer. @alchap.bsky.social breaks down everything you need to know about this group, and how the are taking more than their fair share of flights. 1/2

🚨 Private jets = pinnacle of climate injustice In 2023, they caused more emissions than all flights from Heathrow. And the US has particularly dirty hands: Florida & Texas alone outpolluted the entire EU 💀 We need to #BanPrivateJets now. Taxing them is the bare minimum.

Red Lines are needed, because red blobs are becoming common and frequent (H/T, bsky.app/profile/extr...) "EXTRAORDINARY DAY IN EUROPE Thousands of records pulverized from the Azores to Turkey Temperatures up to 45C ! ... A day for history books !"

Much more is involved than just the impact of more-and-more travel on individual places. More fundamental is the impact of that on the climate and -though the infrastructural development & resources involved - on many ecosystems & communities. @staygroundednet.bsky.social @leonsimons.bsky.social

Yesterday we joined the mobilization against Barcelona Airport expansion. With roaring climate breakdown & touristification – contributing to unaffordable housing & precarious jobs – we need to draw a red line: #NoAirportExpansion Join our conference: stay-grounded.org/strategy-con...

Pere Joan explains the connections between touristification & airport expansion, as well as the housing crisis. Conference Beyond Aviation, Tourism and Capitalism, 3–6 July 📢 Register: stay-grounded.org/strategy-con... ❤️‍🔥 Donate: chuffed.org/project/conf... @zeroportbcn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

🚨 Last call to donate to our crowdfunding! chuffed.org/project/conf... Help cover: 🚄 Travel costs – so we can get there without flying 🥪 Meals – to fuel the debate 🗣️ Interpretation – so local activists can partake 🏡 Venue costs – a roof for radical ideas ❤️‍🔥

Military aviation = death ☠️ Powerful action shedding light on UK support for the war crimes in Gaza, showing how the aviation and military industries are connected and need to be addressed together. #FreePalestine www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

The struggle in Barcelona sets the tone for the rest of Europe. From July 3–6, we’re gathering in Barcelona for the Stay Grounded Strategy Conference - to strategise, resist, and build grounded futures. Also online, with hubs in Mexico and India. Register now👇 stay-grounded.org/strategy-con...