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After almost 4 years of groundbreaking work and a legal challenge FTF are to merge with HACAN to become HACAN East London. FTF are honoured to be able to merge with HACAN who have a strong campaign history in ensuring that residents are represented fairly in all issues of aviation expansion and the associated environmental [...]

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Fight The Flights London City Airport

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– Flock of Swans in the London City Airport Crash zone – London City Airport admit swans pose a significant risk of bird-strike. – Airport tells residents a single swan can bring down a plane. London City Airport has continued operating flights while acknowledging that a flock of swans located in the airports Crash Zone [...]

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At Last……. London City Airport is to start paying it’s own Met Policing Bill which they have expected Tax Payer to Pay for years. Tax payers have been paying over £5.5 million a year for this private hedge fund owned businesses security. They refused to pay while expecting to be allowed to expand their business [...]

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We are extremely saddened to hear that Sir Simon Milton, Deputy to the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, passed away in hospital yesterday. FTF were invited to meet with Sir Simon at City Hall and found him willing to listen to residents concerns and a very courteous and polite individual. Our thoughts are with his [...]

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This is an article from This weeks Docklands 24 on the FTF Campaign. It’s on Page 10 of the paper. HERE… A negative High Court decision would derail many campaigns, but for Fight the Flights (FTF) it has had the opposite effect. Membership for the group, which was formed in 2008 in response to the [...]

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AirportWatch, the national network of airport community campaigns, welcomes the Chancellor’s proposal in the Budget to tax flights taken on private business jets. HACAN Chair John Stewart, who chairs the network, said “This move is long-overdue. In the forthcoming consultation we will be urging the Chancellor to raise Air Passenger Duty by at least the [...]

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FTF to Appeal High Court Decision In 2009 Newham Council voted to approve the 50% flight expansion at London City Airport, taking the current annual air traffic movements up to 120,000 a year. With the help of our lawyers at the Friends of the Earth’s Rights & Justice Centre, we legally challenged the decision at [...]

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Today we see a fightback from the aviationisatas to the campaign against those dirty tax dodging firms who simply don’t want to pay their dues in the UK. Aviation are crying about how hard life is in their business, this is something they excel at. Despite all the freeloading they already do at the expense [...]

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London City Airport and it’s Chief Executive Richard Gooding were today criticised for it’s ‘corporate conspiracy of silence’ around its Public Safety Zone impact Boris Johnson’s Cable Car application. The Cable Car is a joint application between Transport for London and the London Development Agency from whom London City Airport have received £millions in taxpayer [...]

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