Travel Weekly Blog

Greenpeace was out in force at London City, Manchester, Edinburgh and airports this morning, offering passengers the chance to trade in their evil, planet-throttling domestic flight (boo! hiss!) for a cuddly train ride (aaaawww).

Good to see the complicated matter of carbon emissions tackled with such subtlety - Qatar Airways and US Airways, who just put in orders for Airbus's new, more fuel efficient A350, should hang their heads in shame. What good will that do?

Anyway, marauding around a terminal in fancy dress puts the environmental group in uneasy company - back in January EasyJet did the same thing to protest air passenger duty rise.

There will be inevitable disagreement about which protest was the more noble, but one thing is clear: propagandists everywhere are realising that there's no audience more captive than a check-in queue...