http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2009/01/rumbling_skies.shtml en-gb 30 Sat 26 Dec 2009 09:41:54 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2009/01/rumbling_skies.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2009/01/rumbling_skies.shtml?page=13#comment2 At what point do we say enough is enough and put a limit on the total number of flights allowed in our airspace in a year? Do we just keep building more runways and more terminals as demand increases? When do we stop? If we decide upon a number, with the increasing efficiency of engines, we should hopefully see a gradual reduction in both chemical and noise pollution. Oh, unless they build super jumbos...I'm not against planes, I'm going on one on Saturday, but I do find it a bit ridiculous that it is cheaper for me to take a polluting jet up to Edinburgh than jump on the train. Stop the increasing number of runways and build some more train tracks.I lived in Reading for 4 years and worked there for even longer. Although nostalgia occasionally kicks in, I'm glad concord no longer roars across the sky. Wed 07 Jan 2009 22:22:20 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2009/01/rumbling_skies.shtml?page=6#comment1 It's not just London. Once, while walking with the dogs in Mortimer Forest, Shropshire, about as rural as you can get, our quiet was suddenly shattered as a warplane suddenly roared up over a hill only a few metres above the trees [you could count the rivets]. Wales regularly suffers these 'rehearsing to kill people' clowns who care nothing about people or animals below them as they out-compete to fly as low as possible. Lethal boy racers. Tue 06 Jan 2009 15:56:45 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2009/01/rumbling_skies.shtml?page=0#comment0 Commercial flights are an annoying reminder of how careless we are of the world we inhabit. Far worse are the killer planes that regularly defile the sky above where I live, in Devon. There is no excuse for these abominations. Tue 06 Jan 2009 15:10:34 GMT+1