Climate activists occupied part of the tarmac at Geneva International Airport and forced airport authorities to briefly halt air traffic, Geneva Airport said.
“Due to an incursion of people on the tarmac, air traffic is temporarily interrupted at Genève Aéroport”, indicated a tweet from the airport’s official account, before specifying a few minutes later that it “will gradually resume as soon as 12:40 p.m. (10:40 a.m. GMT). Shortly before, climate activists had disrupted the business aviation lounge which is held not far from the runways.
The ban on private jets required
A hundred climate activists from GreenpeaceStay Grounded, Extinction RebellionScientist Rebellion and other climate movement groups from 17 countries disrupted Europe’s largest private jet trade show, the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, demanding a ban on private jets, underlines a press release from Greenpeace.
Images posted by activists on Twitter show members unfurling banners sitting at the foot of planes or blocking entry into the cabin.
Protesters affixed stickers resembling the warning messages on cigarette packs to the planes to “identify them as toxic objects”, with slogans warning that “private jets are burning up our future”, “killing our planet” and “fuel inequalities,” the statement said.