Travel Weekly Blog

Yesterday the Guardian reported that passengers at Heathrow were largely sympathetic to the aims of the Camp Against Climate Change protest.

Surprising? Not necessarily. On the same day DEFRA released some research that seems to echo the newspaper's report.

In a survey of public attitudes to the environment, DEFRA asked whether people who fly should bear the cost of the environmental damage that air travel causes.

• 44 per cent strongly agreed or tended to agree, while
• 31 per cent strongly disagreed or tended to disagree

When it came to feeling guilty about short haul flights, things were slightly different. Only 17 per cent strongly agreed or tended to agree.

So respondents generally don't feel guilty about flying, but do want to mitigate its effects.

In the light of that, supporting a protest against Heathrow expansion while queueing at Heathrow doesn't seem so strange.

Keeping checking our log of the key protest stories from the mainstream media. The main development this morning is an escalation of tension in the camp after a failed break-in by police.

Nathan Midgley, web producer