Outspoken British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh has had his knuckles rapped for claiming that the third runway would reduce CO2 emissions.

The day after the consultation, Willie wrote to tens of thousands of members of BA's executive club, claiming that the third runway would save 330,000 tonnes of CO2 as less planes would need to stack in the skies above London, and urging them to write in support of expansion.

The Advertising Standards Agency wrote to Walsh, pointing out that the third runway would actually see 2.6 million tonnes more CO2, from the 220,000 extra flights each year, and ordered him to write a correction. Walsh has so far refused to say whether he will comply.

You can almost hear Freddie humming along to this one - hot on the heels of BMI's ditching their Leeds-Bradford to Heathrow and Durham Tees Valley to Heathrow comes the news that they're also dropping their Inverness to Heathrow route.

Despite protestations from local Lib-Dem MP Danny Alexander ("disgraceful") it seems there's a perfectly good reason for their abandoning the service - no one was using it. According to Peter Spencer, BMI managing director, "there has been insufficient demand to operate a viable profitable operation on this route".

Apparently the combination of rising fuel costs and landing charges at Heathrow is causing these under-used routes to drop like flies. Could this be the first sign of the invisible hand clamping down on the 'cheap' flights bubble?