If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything at all, it’s that policymakers must always listen to the voices of transport workers when discussing policies impacting or regulating the transport sector. Workers and their unions across the globe are aware that we only have one planet and to care for it means to care for present and future generations of working families. They know that there is no work on a dead planet and that new viruses and extreme climate events are on the horizon as long as exploitation of natural resources, depletion of biodiversity and pollution keep being the overlooked negative externalities of our capitalist system. Aviation workers, in particular, who have suffered years of liberalisation in the sector, the deterioration of working conditions and collective bargaining, care about their jobs, livelihoods and the impact their industry has on the environment. Nevertheless, they cannot be the ones to pay the price. (....)