Stansted airport invasion - persistent protestors will not go away - Telegraph

If a plane is unable to take off, then its place on the tarmac cannot be taken by another aircraft wanting to land.

Then that plane is delayed from moving onto its next destination, its passengers' baggage gets stuck in the system and the chaos builds up, making life miserable for tens of thousands of passengers.

Meanwhile in the skies aircraft are diverted - or merely circle in a holding pattern - spewing out even more CO2 than they would have done if able to operate normally.

Such subtlety, however, may be beyond Plane Stupid.

Climate change protesters wreak havoc at Stansted - Telegraph

Many of the protesters - who settled just 164ft (50m) from the runway - were driven to the airport in a 30-year-old second hand fire engine, while others arrived by bicycle and car.

The stand-off with police lasted for more than five hours as each protester had to be cut free by officers with metal cutters.

By the time all 57 demonstrators had been removed and arrested, 56 flights from the Essex airport had been cancelled or delayed, provoking fury from waiting passengers.