Flying Matters
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Flying Matters (FM) is a airline industry lobby group, which says it "seeks to contribute to a balanced and informed debate on aviation's contribution to climate change".[1] It states: "We aim to demonstrate that the environmental costs of aviation can and are being addressed effectively, efficiently and fairly."[2]
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Science Museum complaints
John Vidal and David Adam, writing in The Guardian, commented on Flying Matters's response to a 2008 exhibition at the Science Museum in London about the environmental impact of aviation. Vidal and Adam said the exhibition
- does a decent job of running through the scale of the problem, and an equally decent job of putting forward how the industry says it can respond. The latter is to be expected, given the whole thing was put together with the help of EADS, owner of Airbus. Airbus is a member of Flying Matters, the industry lobby group that has now written to Chris Rapley, director of the museum, to criticise the exhibition as "tendentious and unscientific". The lobbyists are unhappy with a pledge that visitors are asked "to buy less air-freighted produce".[3]
Principals
- Brian Wilson (former MP)
Members
- ABTA
- ACTE Global
- African Organic Farming Foundation
- Airbus
- BAA
- Boeing
- British Airways
- easyJet
- Farmers Own
- QinetiQ
- Rolls Royce
- Unite the Union
- Virgin Atlantic
Contact, References and Resources
Contact
- Flying Matters
- Unit 7 Salamanca Square
- 9 Albert Embankment
- London SE1 7SP
- Website: www.flyingmatters.co.uk
