Air travellers offered train option

Environmental campaigners have been attempting to encourage air travellers to go green by offering them free train tickets.

Greenpeace set up special booths opposite check-in desks at London City, Manchester, Newcastle and Edinburgh Airports as passengers queued for morning flights.

Dressed as stewards and stewardesses, campaigners offered free return train tickets to passengers.

But Greenpeace director John Sauven said armed police surrounded him and a number of his colleagues at London City Airport before marching them out of the building shortly after they started talking to passengers.

Mr Sauven said the aim was to give people the chance to make a climate-friendly train journey on their return.

He said: "Flying does ten times more damage to the climate than taking the train. We are finding travellers are really interested to hear how polluting flying can be."

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