What makes people choose not to fly? What is it like to live flight-free? Here you can read the stories of people who have decided to stop flying altogether, or who have signed up to one of our Flight Free campaigns. Feel free to share them, reading about others who are going flight-free is an effective way to encourage more people to do so.
Would you like to share your story? We want to include as many different perspectives as possible. Write a text of about 300 words and send it together with a photo of yourself to info@westayontheground.org.
Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson
I will be flight free 2021 as I have been for many years now (with the exception of a funeral of a family member combined with attending and speaking at a UN climate event in NYC in 2019). I work ... Read More
Börje, Norway
In 2007 we migrated from Sweden to Norway, after struggling financially when our honeybees died. I had also developed problems with my back. I worked as an agricultural advisor in the local administration in Norway, and one of my tasks ... Read More
Anne, Spain
I haven’t flown for approximately fifteen years due to an increasingly uncomfortable claustrophobia on flights. This culminated in my actually getting off a flight from Malaga to London when I was faced with that mass of people all jamming stuff ... Read More
Catarina, Sweden
I will be flight free 2021 as I have been for many years now (with the exception of a funeral of a family member combined with attending and speaking at a UN climate event in NYC in 2019). I work ... Read More
Sara, Sweden
My name is Sara Johansson and I am 44 years old. I have been flight free since May 2015 and will not fly again until there is a sustainable way to do it. Once I understood how extremely harmful aviation ... Read More
Jean-François, Belgium
In 2021, I will be flight-free… as I have been for the past 15 years.I will not only be flight-free for my personal travel, but also for the various journeys I organise for groups of hikers each year. I am ... Read More
Martin, Sweden
Last time I took a flight was with work in 2017. We had driven on the autobahn for five hours through road construction and traffic jams just to miss the flight. We didn’t even have time to refuel the rental ... Read More
Sunita, UK
I love to travel. I understand the joy and experiences gleaned from travelling far and wide, but knowing the devastating impact of flying on the environment is more than enough incentive for me to cut down. I couldn’t keep flying ... Read More
Dan Castrigano, USA
I calculated my carbon footprint in 2019 and found that 85% of my footprint came from flying. That sealed the deal. October 6, 2019 was the last time I flew in an airplane. And I plan on never flying again ... Read More
Elisabeth Dimitras, Greece
I have pledged to stay flight free for as long as the climate needs out of respect for the environment. I started living a flight free life in 2019 and although I have missed traveling, I don’t regret it at ... Read More
Jonas, Slovenia
I pledge to be flight free for as long as the climate needs. Many people say that this is quite radical. For me it was the most pragmatic choice, once I had decided to contribute to solving the climate crisis ... Read More
Ida, Sweden
After I graduated I wanted to travel. However, I had just begun to understand the severity of the climate crisis and soon realised that I had to drop the idea of flying to the other side of the world and ... Read More
