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Could you take the flight free challenge? Visit our website for information, inspiration and to make your #FlightFree2025 pledge: www.flightfree.co.uk
Christmas quiz: how many flights makes you a "frequent flier"?
December 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Here's hoping Santa brings us enough courage, inspiration and love to make the flight free movement mainstream 🎁
December 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
To everyone flying today for a weekend away: we hope you have an amazing holiday. *And* we really hope that next time you'll consider different travel options that are fairer & kinder to the world. (The two sentiments aren't mutually exclusive!)
December 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
If only we already had a planet green with life. Wouldn't that be something!
December 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Today, lots of people will be flying away for the weekend. But some of them might even be flying for *the day*. Is the fad of 'extreme day tripping' really a part of the culture we want? If yes, why? If no, why not?
December 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
More views. More unexpected conversations. More time to soak it all in. More adventure. (Just some of the benefits of slow travel i.e. getting trains across borders rather than flying A to B)
December 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We've only really been flying commercially since the '50s. So why does the culture make us feel like it's indispensable? Newsflash: flying isn't a birth right - it's a massive privilege.
December 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It's tonight! Don't miss it – the Flight Free UK end-of-year party 🐧 www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...

7.30-9pm
Online (Zoom)
Quiz, travel stories, entertainment
Wear your best jumper 🎄
December 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Old growth forests are irreplaceable. And now we're being told that the pollution on the air is so great that trees are struggling to absorb it all. Planting trees to offset our emissions isn't the magic fix airlines hope it is. Time for all of us to step up and go flight free.
December 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Just 4 days left on the Interrail sale: 25% off passes. Buy yours here 👉 www.interrail.eu/en

This is our best budget tip for comfort flight-free travel – don't miss it!

And read our guide to Interrail here 👇
How to interrail
A guide to using Europe's rail-travel pass, Interrail
flightfree.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Party season is taking off! (metaphorically)

Don't miss the fun at our end-of-year party 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...

Join us on 15th December for
🚄 Real flight-free travel stories
🤩 Advice and inspiration from folks who have done it themselves
❓Our fiendish quiz

See you there! 🎅🎄
Select tickets – The Flight Free UK end-of-year party – Zoom
The Flight Free UK end-of-year party – Zoom, Mon 15 Dec 2025 - It’s time for our end of year party! Join us online for an evening of celebration, with inspiring stories from the year, live entertainme...
www.tickettailor.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Tickets flying (sorry) for our end-of-year party on Monday... don't miss it!

Register here for ✅ travel inspiration ✅ poetic entertainment ✅ the Flight Free Quiz ✅ Christmas jumper competition: www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
👀 A sneak peak of our end-of-year party:

🇫🇷 Harrie travelled overland from the Scottish Highlands to the South of France
🇬🇷 Becca took the family from Cardiff to Crete by train & boat
🇸🇪 Katie went to Stockholm for an orienteering trip

Intrigued? Come along! www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
December 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Reposted by Flight Free UK
This is down to us all.
Government and city action is vital. And so is personal responsibility.
#ActNow
People seem to think business flights make up the majority of trips. Not true. In the UK, they're only about 10% of international flights. Sorry, holidaymakers! We *all* need to change the way we think about flying.
December 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Heard airlines touting 'bio fuel' as the solution? In order to scale it, we’d need to cover the land that we *currently use for food* in biofuel crops. One day the penny will drop: we can't magic away our impact on the planet. We have to reduce flying and reduce consumption now.
December 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
People seem to think business flights make up the majority of trips. Not true. In the UK, they're only about 10% of international flights. Sorry, holidaymakers! We *all* need to change the way we think about flying.
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Agree Paul Dano is a decent actor but also we're hurtling towards 4 degrees of warming by 2060 so its hard to get worked up about it.
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Reposted by Flight Free UK
Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour, says major @unep.org report

- ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’
UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
👀 A sneak peak of our end-of-year party:

🇫🇷 Harrie travelled overland from the Scottish Highlands to the South of France
🇬🇷 Becca took the family from Cardiff to Crete by train & boat
🇸🇪 Katie went to Stockholm for an orienteering trip

Intrigued? Come along! www.tickettailor.com/events/fligh...
December 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
What is there to say? Airports are a disaster for wildlife, flying is a disaster for the climate and expanding Europe's busiest airport in a time of ecosystem collapse is madness. Guess it will be a short report.
The transport secretary, Heidi Alexander asks @thecccuk.bsky.social to advise the Government on the shaping of the revised Airports National Policy Statement (ANPS) in the wake of the Government’s decision to endorse the building of a third runway at Heathrow.
www.transportxtra.com/publications...
Alexander looks to CCC in bid to square airport expansion wi
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander is seeking advice from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) on the shaping of the revised Airports National Policy Statement (
www.transportxtra.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:44 AM
We’ve got an exciting program planned for our End-of-Year Party on 15th December ⛄

Flight-free travel inspiration, climate poetry and our legendary quiz!

If you haven’t reserved your spot yet head to tickettailor.com/events/flightfreeuk/1909812 🐧❄️
December 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Yes, animal farming produces more CO2 than flying - globally. But most of the world's population don't fly. In richer countries, we have a responsibility to do more (or less).

flightfree.co.uk/post/is-it-b...
Is it better to go vegan or stop flying?
It’s commonly quoted that animal agriculture produces more CO2 than aviation, therefore giving up meat would have more impact than giving up flying. We look at the numbers behind the claims.
flightfree.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
People overwhelmingly want to do the right thing. People want safe futures and clean air. It's politics and profit that always gets in the way.

We can't leave it up to someone else to fix the state our planet is in.
Join the flight free movement.
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Christine travelled Leeds → Liverpool → Belfast by train & overnight ferry for a work retreat. It took longer than flying, but gave her time to explore, work, and sleep en route, proving overnight travel can be productive & enjoyable. #FlightFree flightfree.co.uk/travel_artic...
Leeds to Belfast
Event facilitator Christine avoids work flights where possible, and finds the ferry from Liverpool to Belfast gives a great option for a workshop in the Northern Irish capital
flightfree.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Want to hang out with other flight-free travel lovers?

🎉 Join us online for the Flight Free UK End-of-Year Party on 15th December
Hear from flight-free community members about their journeys as we celebrate 2025!

Grab your spot now 👉 tickettailor.com/events/flightfreeuk/1909812
December 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Did you know that a return flight to New York causes the same emissions as driving a car for an entire year? Let's stop sweeping the climate impact of flying under the rug 🌎
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM