Short shelf-Life for Varsity

In a rare but satisfying turn of events Varsity air services have realised the shortcomings of domestic flights, and suspended their Oxford-Edinburgh route just a week into its operation.

The reason for the suspension is not their sudden realisation of the climatalogical impact caused by flying people from Oxford to Edinburgh, but the rather mundane fact that Mr Halstead (the baby-faced entrepeneur who runs - or rather, ran - Varsity) had not paid his bills.

This shouldn't be seen as unusual. The aviation industry, who already get better tax breaks than non-doms, for the service of polluting our lungs, bulldozing whole comunities and driving the world ever closer to climate chaos. So why anyone thought they'd be paying pilot's wages and other costs is anyone's guess.

Halstead should have learnt from his past mistakes. In 2006 his other airline, Alpha One Airways, cut it's service between Edinburgh and the Isle of Man after 6 weeks. He also failed to deliver on the promised delights of that great missing link- an Oxford to Cambridge plane service.

This man is single-handedly grounding short haul flights across the UK, and Plane Stupid thanks him for his efforts, only adding that he needn't start the airlines to begin with; we're happy to provide him with some d-locks and harris fencing to achieve top quality results.