On Wednesday 22nd May 2024, Safe Landing will be taking part in an advocacy event at the UK Houses of Parliament called “Future Flightpaths: Introducing Innovative Policies for Aviation”.
The event will bring together charities, campaigners, aviation workers, Members of Parliament (MPs) and peers to discuss novel approaches and policies for decarbonising aviation.
We are co-hosting the event with Possible, Green Alliance, and No Airport Expansion.
Get Involved
You can ask your MP to attend the event using this handy tool created by Possible: https://action.wearepossible.org/page/146402/action/1
You can share our flyer about the event on Twitter: https://x.com/_SafeLanding/status/1770459352983273489
About Safe Landing
Safe Landing is a community of aviation industry professionals: pilots, cabin crew, airport staff, aerospace engineers and factory workers. We aim for long-term employment by empowering aviation workers to rapidly reduce the climate impact of air travel.
The policies we propose
The policies we advocate for include:
- Limiting air traffic growth in the near-term — in order to ensure sector stability in the long-term.
- Reforming the international CORSIA scheme — CORSIA will prove completely ineffective at reducing aviation emissions, despite being the main policy covering most aviation emissions globally for the next decade.
- Higher pricing of aviation CO2 emissions — pricing should ramp up as early as possible to prevent a sudden wall of pricing hitting us in the 2030s.
- Proactive regulation and mitigation of aviation non-CO2 emissions — including via cleaner kerosene and contrail avoidance.
- Reduced financial incentives for most “SAF” production — with UK government aviation funding instead being directed towards R&D for radically efficient aircraft configurations and “zero emissions” propulsion systems.
- Pause of business-as-usual airport expansion — in order to transform infrastructure and instead make it compatible with smaller, regional “zero emissions” aircraft with different passenger capacities, ranges and fuels.
- The use of Aviation Workers’ Assemblies — to develop industrial strategy / decarbonisation plans that incorporate the input, expertise, and long-term view of workers.