Changes to aircraft stacking routes into London Luton Airport (LLA) in February 2022, known as "Air Deployment 6" or AD6, have significantly increased noise pollution in many previously quiet rural towns and villages across several counties. This is having a direct effect on the health and wellbeing of hundreds of thousands of residents. This is set to get much worse as LLA plans to expand passenger numbers from 18 to 32 million passengers a year, with operations extending to 21 hours a day. Such large scale airport expansion is incompatible with the UK's climate change commitments. 

AD6 was primarily intended to increase capacity, but was badly designed, resulting in poor use of the airspace. The associated Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) consultation process was poorly publicised and carried out during the pandemic so that the vast majority of affected residents were unaware of the plans and unable to object. 

It is not yet too late to reverse these changes, the CAA post implementation review is still ongoing and due to complete on the 22nd September 2023. A campaign to redesign or abandon AD6 is also gathering pace with groups such as RELAS (Reject Luton Airport Stacking) and local MPs campaigning to reverse the changes. By demonstrating opposition to AD6 in this petition you will directly contribute to this campaign.

Please note, any donations via this site go to change.org, not RELAS.