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Tower Hamlets Residents Group Press Release: Boris Johnson’s Cable Car funding plunges into crisis. – Newham Councils Clive Dutton declares Cable Car fully funded.- TfL deny private funding in place.- Boris Johnson’s Cable Car private funding promise in pieces. A Campaign against Boris Johnson building a Cable Car through London City Airport’s crash zone have [...]

Tags: Boris, Cable, crisis, funding, into, Johnson's, plunges

Press Release From GACC An elderly lady was recently arrested, at the instigation of Gatwick Airport, for lodging too many complaints with the airport noise complaints line. She was charged with the criminal offence of using a telephone to cause annoyance or anxiety – although she only spoke to an airport answerphone set up to [...]

Tags: about, aircraft, airport, Annoying, Complaining, GUILTY, Noise

Since the the 18th November we keep hearing about a report that the City of London Corporation have paid York Aviation to carry out. Interestingly, the media have referred to it on various occasions since, but low and behold, none of them had seen the report when we questioned them. So all the spin and [...]

Tags: airport, City, Claims, Fund, Hedge, London, more, Owned, Unbalanced

It seems all money that aviation (London City Airport) take from the London Taxpayer, as per yesterday’s posts here and here, is simply not enough! For an airport and industry that likes to make wild claims about how much they contribute, they certainly seem keen to take a lot from you the taxpayer. The Channel [...]

Tags: Airports, Aviation, charged, flights, from, fuel, more, Whilst, within

We are well aware that there have been issues with staff conditions and contracts at London City Airport over the past year. Disgruntled staff have been contacting us during the time and we know that they have also been in contact with Stephen Timms MP over the issue. They are very very angry at what [...]

Tags: airport, City, Conditions, Ground, London, look, over, Staff, Strike

Boris Johnson’s London cable car ‘will cross airport crash zone’ Pippa Crerar, City Hall Editor Boris Johnson’s plan for a cable car across the Thames was in doubt today after it emerged the route will cross a “crash zone” around London City Airport. Residents have raised serious safety concerns and called for a delay until [...]

Tags: airport, Boris/TFL, Cable, Car/, City, cover, Crash, Evening, London, Saga, Standard, Zone

RE: Formal response to the CAA consultation on Future Airspace Strategy (FAS) 2011 – 2030 Introduction: Fight the Flights (FTF) is a residents group which was initially formed in 2007 to campaign against the expansion of London City Airport whilst considering the environmental and public health effects of the operations of the airport in this [...]

Tags: Airspace, CAA's, Consultation, Formal, FTF's, Future, Response, Strategy

During the Christmas holiday, the team here at FTF were made aware of the Notification of the change to the London City Airport Public Safety Zone. This change was on the cards as each time London City Airport demands more flights and bigger planes the public safety zone enlarges to take account of increased risk [...]

Tags: Council, Greenwich, Know, nothing', Planning

RDC Aviation EU Aviation Emissions Report. Quarter 4 2010 Contains much more data. Below are some key figures. CO2 Estimates By Country – December 2010 European Aviation emissions – Tonnes CO2 Country December 2010 Rolling 12 months (all 2010) United Kingdom 3,534,971 (26%) 44,900,745 Germany 2,462,258 (18%) 31,411,992 France 2,049,766 (15%) 25,001,122 Spain and Canary [...]

Tags: 2010, ahead, Airports, Aviation, countries, emissions, European, figures, Heathrow

From Bexley Times 24 Thousands of residents will suffer an extra 40,000 planes flying overhead every year after the High Court upheld a decision for the expansion of City Airport. Campaigners in Thamesmead, which is directly under the flightpath to the airport in London Docklands, say it will mean a huge increase in noise and [...]

Tags: after, airport, City, expansion, London, suffer, Thamesmead