Plane Stupid

Paul Honigmann commends protest but urges caution

by Paul Honigmann 4th March 2016

While I have sympathy with the sincerity of the Plane Stupid demonstrators at Heathrow last July, who have now been given suspended sentences, I also have misgivings.

The blockade caused twenty-five flights to be cancelled and dozens delayed. Inevitably, hundreds of passengers were inconvenienced and Plane Stupid cannot have known whether this caused serious problems for them, or worse. A demonstration in a terminal could have made their point just as well.