Environmental protest group Just Stop Oil has been slammed as "selfish" and "shooting itself in the foot" after details of the activists' plot to spark travel chaos this summer emerged.
Back in March, the group had schemed to cause "disruption on a scale that has never been seen before" by demonstrating at airports in the UK and across Europe from the middle of June.
Protesters, in conjunction with Europe-based campaign group A22 Network, are set to call off flights by gluing themselves to runways, storming airport terminals and even climbing on planes in tourist spots including Spain, Greece and Turkey - which would see prospective holidaymakers' summer travels plagued by delays at home and abroad.
At a Just Stop Oil meeting in Birmingham, an undercover journalist from the Mirror had witnessed a leading figure from the group, Phoebe Plummer, claiming: "The most exciting part of this plan is that [it's] going to be part of an international effort.
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