Climate activist group Heathrow Pause plans to fly "toy drones" at regular intervals at the UK airport, beginning at 3am on 13 September . The group, a splinter of the Met Police , said the protest aims to “highlight the incompatibility" of the government's zero net- zero greenhouse gas emissions target with its Heathrow expansion plans. Drones will be flown at around head-height within the airport's exclusion zone, disrupting aircraft, but will not enter flight paths, the group said. The Heathrow Pause group says the action is “to highlight the incompatibility of Heathrow airport’s expansion with the government’s own legally binding commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050”. An airport spokesperson said it would use drone-detection solutions to "mitigate the operational impact" of the action.
Climate activist group Heathrow Pause plans to fly "toy drones" at regular intervals at the UK airport, beginning at 3am on 13 September . The group, a splinter of the Met Police , said the protest aims to “highlight the incompatibility" of the government's zero net- zero greenhouse gas emissions target with its Heathrow expansion plans. Drones will be flown at around head-height within the airport's exclusion zone, disrupting aircraft, but will not enter flight paths, the group said. An airport spokesperson said it would use drone-detection solutions to "mitigate the operational impact" of the action.